[RFC] Refresh iswblank and iswspace (was Re: Update wctype functions to Unicode 5.2?)
Corinna Vinschen
vinschen@redhat.com
Tue Feb 16 12:24:00 GMT 2010
On Feb 16 12:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 15 20:25, Howland Craig D (Craig) wrote:
> > Both C99 and POSIX say that blank is only space and horizontal tab in
> > the C/POSIX locale. So strictly speaking, it would appear that a
> > locale check would be needed. (On the other hand, it could possibly be
> > considered a mistake in the standards to make such a statement,
> > ignoring any definitions provided with the extended character set.)
> >
> > This observation, however, is not directly related to the patch under
> > consideration, but is pointing to an existing flaw.
>
> Right. I don't worry for now, but we should fix that soon.
>
> I'd suggest to check for the locale being exactly "C" and if so, only
> return chars <= 0x7f. Every other locale is undefined and so allows to
s/undefined/implementation-defined/
> report any character in the Unicode range.
Corinna
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