Roger Marquis <marquis@xxxxxx> wrote, on 02 Jul 2009:
>
> 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.
It should not be a named codeset, just whatever codeset is used for
the C locale.
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