Re: [9fans] awk, not utf aware...

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

(which I have sitting next to me)

On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:

> Yes. I'm too lazy to pick up my copy of the standard.
>
> On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Steven Vormwald wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:21 -0500, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
>>> And it's wonderful that the C standard defines a character
>>> literal as
>>> so:
>>>
>>> 	char-literal:
>>> 		' characters '
>>> 	characters:
>>> 		character
>>> 		characters character
>>>
>>> (or something like that)
>>>
>>> Question, then: why do we need wchar_t/Rune?
>>
>> The definitions are (<> used to indicate non-terminals in the
>> grammar...):
>>
>> (6.4.4.4) character-constant:
>> 	' <c-char-sequence> '
>> 	L' <c-char-sequence> '
>>
>> (6.4.4.4) c-char-sequence:
>> 	<c-char>
>> 	<c-char-sequence> <c-char>
>>
>> (6.4.4.4) c-char:
>> 	any member of the source character set except the single-quote ',
>> backslash \, or new-line character
>>
>> 	<escape-sequence>
>>
>> Steven Vormwald
>> sdvormwa@mtu.edu
>>
>>
>