Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment

[Roger Marquis <marquis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don wrote:
> > Chet wrote:
> > Sure, but that will eventually get fixed.  The intent as I understand
> > it is that the portable character set be locale-independent (or at
> > least constant across "conforming locales").
> ... the intent was not to require that
> the characters in the portable character set have the same
> encoding in all locales even though that could simplify a lot
> of code.
Still, as a standards body POSIX' assumes responsibility for a portable
character set, even if the original deliverables did not need it.

One question though, are we talking about a portable character set for
variable names, variable values, or both?   Don't know if there's a need to
ensure the portability of values but I see a substantial value in
standardizing the character set for variable names, to ASCII ideally.

Roger Marquis