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From: Jerome BENOIT on 10 Apr 2010 02:20
Hello List,

thanks for your replies.

To summarize, I can just forget it.

Thanks,
Jerome

Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters:
> in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about
> ASCII character issues, as far as we are concern with portability.
>
> Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be
> found ?
>
> Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian box ?
> The aim is to check the portability of my code.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jerome
>
>
>

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From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 14 Apr 2010 22:40
On Friday 09 April 2010 11:14:14 Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be
> found ?

IIRC, there are some Asian locales that are not fully (seven-bit) ASCII-
compatible.

Many locales make use of eight-bit characters or use bytes with decimal value
> 127 as part of multi-byte characters. So, your program shouldn't assume
outside input is ASCII-only.
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