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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: ispunct(3) [was: FreeBSD-2.1.1]
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<<On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:14:09 -0700 (PDT), "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> Garrett, 
> 	i am sure that you are correct, but i would prefer more portable code.
> 	UCHAR_MIN seems to be in short supply.  (UCHAR_MAX might be too).
> 	isascii() is everywhere.

No it's not.  That's the whole point.  Yes, there are substandard
implementations which need such hackery.  The appropriate method is to
write to the Standard and provide alternatives for substandard
systems.

-GAWollman

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