making the wide character properties Unicode compatible

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Mon Sep 25 21:29:00 GMT 2000


Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:

> The wide character classification functions in an UTF-8 locale currently
> have the following bugs and oddities: [...]

Thanks, I've added this patch with one exception:

>   - xdigit: is lacking all the foreign digit characters, but SUSV2 says
>       "The definition of character class xdigit requires that the characters
>        included in character class digit be included here also."

I challenge this one.  It does not make any sense since then you would
also have to add all forms of the letters.  This is simply unreasonable.

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