Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:54:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Guido Sassmannshausen wrote:

> My code parses a text file which contains umlauts.
> 
> if I use a
> 
> string s;
> instream>>s;
> cout << s;
> 
> I get other characters (I think the lower 7bits of ascii standrad) instead
> of theword containing umlauts.

Does it work if you do this from a C program (with scanf)?

It is important to establish whether this is a problem in the C++
library (which is maintained by the GNU project) or the C library
(which is maintained by DJGPP), so that we know where to report the
bug and where to look for it.