Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 09 April 2010 11:14:14 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be > found ? IIRC, there are some Asian locales that are not fully (seven-bit) ASCII- compatible. Many locales make use of eight-bit characters or use bytes with d

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
portability. Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be found ? Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian box ? The aim is to check the portability of my code. Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- To

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Powell writes: > These are some of the issues that someone writing portable code for > ASCII vs. EBCDIC implementations needs to worry about. But only library authors should need to worry about them. Application programmers should use appropriate library calls. -- John Hasler -- To UN

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:57:04 -0400 (EDT), John Hasler wrote: > Stephen Powell writes: >> Yes, Hercules is an IBM mainframe emulator. But the problem is >> licensing. There are some *very old* releases of IBM operating >> systems that have passed into the public domain that you can run on >> the He

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I don't think the OP meant mainfraimes... I'd stick with ANSI/ISO C plus UTF-8, there are random examples and stuff on the net. If you can, post your findings, i'd be curious (living on the nonASCII part of the world) for general guidelines, do's and don't's. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kont

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Powell writes: > Yes, Hercules is an IBM mainframe emulator. But the problem is > licensing. There are some *very old* releases of IBM operating > systems that have passed into the public domain that you can run on > the Hercules emulator. Which should suffice for testing his software wi

RE: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: jgm...@rezozer.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: non-ASCII environment >Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:14:14 +0800 > >>Hello List, >> >>I am writing some C code which involves ASCII character

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be found > ? > > Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian box ? > The aim is to check the portability of my code. Well, Unicode, specifically the UTF-8 encoding, is generally the standard for modern Linux systems. Of

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:50:43 -0400 (EDT), John Hasler wrote: > Jerome BENOIT writes: >> Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be >> found ? Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian >> box ? The aim is to check the portability

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread John Hasler
Jerome BENOIT writes: > Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be > found ? Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian > box ? The aim is to check the portability of my code. Look at the Hercules System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture Emu

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread Stephen Powell
haracter issues, as far as we are concern with portability. >> >> Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can >> be found ? >> >> Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian box ? >> The aim is to check the portability of my

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 09 Abr 2010, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters: in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about ASCII character issues, as far as we are concern with portability. Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII

non-ASCII environment

2010-04-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters: in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about ASCII character issues, as far as we are concern with portability. Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be found ? Furthermore, can such