On Monday, 21 September 2015, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 09:40:05PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > > I concur, I don't want to see a plethora of "isnumber" > > "ismaybeanumber" bullshit in the tree that > > do the same thing "isdigit" does.. if for whatever reason we want > > isdigit to be more efficient because > > the most important thing I have to do is make shell sleep more > > efficient, we should fix isdigit, or the locale poo.. > > > > But for sure not introduce non-standard ascii-only replacements into > > all code that do not quite what libc does.. > > > > Jesus ted did you learn nothing from OpenSSL? :) > > Just remove the setlocale() call to leave sleep(1) in the default "C" > locale. > > isdigit() and friends can now be considered ASCII-only. > When we still had latin1 etc. it was possible in theory that values between > 128 and 255 represented a digit. But now, isdigit() does the same > regardless > of locale setting (C or UTF-8) since it cannot be given a multibyte > sequence, > i.e. it will not deal with character values above 127. > > The function that parses funny numbers is iswdigit() which gets a wchar_t. > But sleep(1) doesn't need that. > but what if i want to sleep for💩 seconds?!!? this feature could be incredibly important!!
