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Re: gcc ignores locale (no UTF-8 source code supported)
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: gcc ignores locale (no UTF-8 source code supported)
- From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:51:00 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: Markus dot Kuhn at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> I believe that characters outside the basic character set (i.e. ASCII)
> should not be used in portable software.
In fact that basic source character set is smaller than ASCII; it has only 95
members. The symbols @ and $ are not in it, and the only control characters
are the horizontal tab, vertical tab and form feed.
(The line termination scheme is threated as a newline, at least in the abstract
semantics, so that effectively adds a 96th character).