On 6/1/17 8:42 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > It would be a useful upgrade besides being a "good world citizen" ;-).
The only way this makes sense is to extend the allowable set of characters from the portable character set to the current locale. > I'm guessing that if POSIX was set, then they'd be limited > to the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) > set. ;^) Not quite; it's a subset of characters from the Portable Character Set. That's the set of characters that Posix requires to be present in all locales supported by Posix systems. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_235 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
