On 24/09/2013 10:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
It doesn't say (but perhaps TR # 16 does) which EBCDIC code page (or for that matter, which flavor of ASCII -- ISO8859-??) is used. This could be chaotic. And the dreadful LF<->NEL pitfall lurks. ASCII suffers similar problems; else why would we have the dreadful trigraphs in ANSI C?
The C++ committee wanted to deprecate trigraphs in the last standard http://tinyurl.com/n3nas3u. EBCDIC was the only tangible reason for keeping them alive. I've lost count of the amount of times I've had a C/C++ analysis tool choke because of trigraphs - doxygen, valgrind etc.
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