Hi,
remember me? ;-)
I’m writing because I was pondering EBCDIC for an upcoming change.
Daniel Richard G. dixit:
>I don't think there would be any instance where the code needs to know
>"I am building for EBCDIC 1047" vs. "for EBCDIC 037" or whatnot. The
>transcoding of char/string literals
Dixi quod…
>>be conforming for character classes to match ASCII only. You either
>>support UTF-8 or you don't.
>
>For POSIX purposes, we really don’t, as we use our own routines
[…]
>The question was more whether [[:upper:]] matching [A-Z] would
>be more useful than not matching anything at all.