Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:16:00 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: wide character functions
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> From: Cesar Rabak <crabak AT acm DOT org>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:44:23 -0300
>  >
>  > I don't understand how is* can support multibyte characters, when
>  > they only take an int argument.
>  >
> Since an int in DJGPP is 32 bits, I can see how, though I'm not sure it
> does. As four bytes seems to me 'multibyte' (four in fact ;-).

No, the standard clearly says that the int argument to the is* macros
must be either representable as an unsigned char, or be the value of
EOF.  So multibyte characters are out.

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