That technically is true for ASCII and the C locale. They are also 7 bit only. I am not sure what tr will do in those locales.
There is no such thing as "extended ASCII". There are however legal 8-bit encodings and locales that use them like en_US.ISO8859-15 Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 26, 2015, at 11:43 PM, Richard PALO <rich...@netbsd.org> wrote: > > Le 27/11/15 08:35, Richard PALO a écrit : > >> Can you point me to the relevant clause in POSIX justfying the 'illegal >> sequence' in illumos tr? >> > > Ah, sorry, you already said it, UTF-8 only support 7-bit single byte > sequences... duh. > > -- > Richard PALO > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
