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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:10:31 -0800, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

[I wrote:]
>> We are supposed, I believe, to support arbitrary national digits in
>> these functions, in addition to the Portable Character Set digits.

> revision 1.15
> date: 2001/11/29 03:03:52;  author: ache;  state: Exp;  lines: +24 -24
> Back out national digits support, POSIX explicetely disallows it:

Ache is wrong.  See XSH page 1442 line 44650:

# In other than the C or POSIX locales, other implementation-defined
# subject sequences may be accepted.

The same dispensation is provided for strtol() on page 1449 and for
strtoul() on page 1454.

However, I was mistaken in that this does not represent a requirement
on our part.

-GAWollman


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