Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 11:45:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locale stuff: call for conclusion. Message-ID: <199510191845.LAA03088@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199510191244.IAA01918@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Oct 19, 95 08:44:23 am
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> > Summary: only the upper, lower, alpha and space attributes must be limited. > > > > Would this actually help? Anything that deals with words may be confused > > by national alpha and space characters not satisfying isalpha() and > > isspace(). > > > > An application that cares will call setlocale() to obtain a locale > specific table with the correct information. An application like > ls will be able to print more than what it prints now, which is not > without drawbacks but I argue that more even with its drawbacks is > more useful than nothing at all. What Kaleb said, word for word. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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