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Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

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According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/24/2009 3:06 AM:
> Somehow I don't understand how a test application running in the "C"
> locale could emit characters outside the ASCII range at all and another
> part of the test expects the emitted character to be in the ASCII range.

That's correct - POSIX is explicit that applications using 8-bit bytes in
character contexts while using the "C" locale have unspecified behavior.
This is technically a bug in gcc for not being prepared for multibyte
characters in the "C" locale.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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