[Various] Digested Articles

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Tue Jan 4 21:08:00 GMT 2000


Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

> Looking at the appended bug report and the code in glibc 2.1 and 2.2
> I'm a bit confused.

The correct solution is to not set the cntrl bit for characters
>=0x80.  I.e., I've changed 2.2 to match 2.1.  The reason is that the
character set of the C locale is ASCII which has no characters >=0x80.
This is consistent with all the other Unixes I tested.

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