Re: multibyte C locale

[Glen Seeds <Glen.Seeds@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that would make a lot of working
applications non-conformant. Could we say:

    In the POSIX locale, a character from the portable character
set 
    must not have a state-dependent encoding.
For characters that have 
    state-dependent encoding, the encoding
of each part must be distinct 
    from the coding of all portable characters.

  /glen

From:	shwaresyst@aol.com
To:	austin-group-l@opengroup.org
Date:	2009-10-30 02:57 PM
Subject:	Re: multibyte C locale

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Yes, that's more the type of fix I was intending to
say, but it was 1AM 
when I was composing it. I do think the further qualification of 'and 
all code points shall fit in a variable of C type char.' is needed to 
explicitly pin it down that wide char types are also excluded.

Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent-opgr@vinc17.org>
To: austin-group-l@opengroup.org
Sent: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 2:11 pm
Subject: Re: multibyte C locale

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I wonder whether the text should be changed to be more rigorous and
say exactly what it intends to say. Something like:

    In the POSIX locale, a character must not have a state-dependent
    encoding.

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