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Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
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> >>Bruce, I agree with you and POSIX agree with us.
> >>Default table must be strict ASCII per POSIX.
> >>So, we can close this table propogating subject.
> 
> >Does POSIX mention ASCII?  ANSI allows other encodings
> >of course, and is only strict for letters and digits,
> >but only letters are very important.
> 
> Well 1003.1 says something about minimal subset to run C pgms.
> Comparing ASCII and 8859-1 is clear that ASCII is more minimal.
> 
> Here some explanation of this term taken directly from POSIX
> working gtoup ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 - POSIX: locale collection.
> They have VERY different locales for POSIX default and 8859-1
> and POSIX default conforms ASCII, see below.
> (If someone interested, I can post their 8859-1 locale too).

OK.  POSIX is IEEE.

What does ISO say?  I believe it relaxes the values allowable in
the "undefined" or "implementation defined" cases.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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