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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com,
	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:12:14 +0000
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Subject:	Re: ctype functions
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
 
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > > then this is how it is supposed to work in the C locale: all ctype 
> > > functions are undefined for non-ASCII (8-bit) characters.
> > 
> > Then: why don't just assume the default DOS code page? (437). That's better 
> > than nothing.
> 
> Sorry, ``undefined'' is not correct.  The standard says that in the C 
> locale, only (7-bit) ASCII letters are converted by toupper/tolower.  So 
> we can't do anything with non-ASCII characters without violating the 
> standard.  Only locales other than C can do that.

Ok.

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