Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:59:11 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ctype functions
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> Additionally a simple test shows that toupper/lower doesn't work for ASCII 
> values over 127 (I tried eacute and uuml).

If by ``doesn't work'' you mean that it returns the argument unchanged, 
then this is how it is supposed to work in the C locale: all ctype 
functions are undefined for non-ASCII (8-bit) characters.

> Is because the lack of locale stuff?

It's because we only support the C locale in ctype functions.