Why unsigned chars not default?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2723 at ingr.UUCP> crossgl at ingr.UUCP (Gordon Cross) writes:
>The proposed ANSI C standard states (I am quoting directly from the document):

The definition of "character" has been changed.  However, whether a plain
char acts like signed char or unsigned char is up to the implementation,
as it has been since the early days of C.