On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Jordan Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is converging, so I'm putting it up on Phabricator for better 
> spot-comments. E-mail review still welcome as well, of course.
>
> http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D312
>
>
>>> One thing I missed before: please don't use iscntrl or isxdigit;
>>> they're dependent on the current locale (and to be safe, don't use
>>> isascii either).
>>
>> I understand for iscntrl, but isascii appears a lot and the expanded form is 
>> ugly. I guess I'll write my own wrapper.
>
> …do I have to? :-D isascii seems pretty obvious as to its intent, and it's 
> specified to be locale-independent.

Here's what POSIX says:

APPLICATION USAGE

The isascii() function cannot be used portably in a localized application.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

The isascii() function may be removed in a future version.

CHANGE HISTORY

Issue 7

The isascii() function is marked obsolescent.

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