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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Revisiting byte-based C locale
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 00:09:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150522040959.GJ17573@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMAJcuCK=nh9=Kvsh5h5Et3tw5XDQv5XGy4OozyZOLyft9LgVA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:04:47PM -0500, Josiah Worcester wrote:
> Given the POSIX rules on LC_CTYPE character classes effecting
> [[:alpha:]], it seems to me now that the clear intent (if not
> statement) is in fact for a byte-based C locale. Though maybe
> unfortunate, it does seem like as though that is in fact the most
> conformant way of doing it, and conforming looks to have little cost
> now.

Not necessarily. There's no rule against the existence of additional
characters in the C locale -- in fact, the proposal to make the C
locale "8-bit-clean" requires an additional 128 characters -- but the
additional ones can't be in classes like alpha.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-22  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-22  2:22 Rich Felker
2015-05-22  4:04 ` Josiah Worcester
2015-05-22  4:09   ` Rich Felker [this message]
2015-06-04 20:53 ` Rich Felker
2015-06-04 21:00   ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-06-05  1:39     ` Rich Felker
2015-06-05  4:48       ` Isaac Dunham
2015-06-05  8:58       ` Christian Neukirchen

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