On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Martin Maechler wrote:
"BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:33:37 +0000 (GMT) writes:
BDR> That this prints as an octal escape was always the BDR> intention:
excuse me Brian, but "always" is not entirely correct: Originally (say 6-8 years ago), the intention was really something like
`` iso-latin-1 (= iso-8859-1) should work everywhere; we don't care yet for anything else ''
We do say (and have for at least 7 years) that which are valid characters was locale-dependent. So we did not implement your policy, instead using isxxxx functions to do the testing, not entirely consistently.
It seems that older systems allowed non-ASCII Latin-1 characters in the
C locale, which is not correct according to the POSIX definition of that locale (but I think allowed by ISO C90).
-- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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