Handling numbers input/output in glibc
Bruno Haible
bruno@clisp.org
Tue Jan 27 10:23:00 GMT 2004
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> The comment in gen-unicode-ctype.c
> quotes the same part from C99 and this part:
>
> 5.2.1:
> the 10 decimal digits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
>
> But as I wrote in my original long mail, I think this is a
> misunderstanding.
There are two points which support Ulrich's and my interpretation of
C99 on this issue:
- Clause 3 of 5.2.1 talks about the basic character set only,
meaning that all decimal digits are elements of the basic character set
and thus not "extended characters".
- The word "digits" is in an italic font, and an italic font in this
document usually means "here is a new term that is being defined".
This is the term that is then referred to in section 7.25.2.1.5.
Bruno
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