What platforms have something other than 8-bit char?

Question

Every now and then, someone on SO points out that char (aka \'byte\') isn\'t necessarily 8 bits.

It seems that 8-bit char is almost universal. I would h

Answer 1

ints used to be 16 bits (pdp11, etc.). Going to 32 bit architectures was hard. People are getting better: Hardly anyone assumes a pointer will fit in a long any more (you don't right?). Or file offsets, or timestamps, or ...

8 bit characters are already somewhat of an anachronism. We already need 32 bits to hold all the world's character sets.