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Re: [Various] Digested Articles
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: [Various] Digested Articles
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 04 Jan 2000 21:04:44 -0800
- Cc: John Summerfield <summer at os2 dot ami dot com dot au>
- References: <u866xhg53z.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> Looking at the appended bug report and the code in glibc 2.1 and 2.2
> I'm a bit confused.
The correct solution is to not set the cntrl bit for characters
>=0x80. I.e., I've changed 2.2 to match 2.1. The reason is that the
character set of the C locale is ASCII which has no characters >=0x80.
This is consistent with all the other Unixes I tested.
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