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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:39:33 +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:
> 
> > 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, 

Yes.

> 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.
 
> > Is because the lack of locale stuff?
> 
> It's because we only support the C locale in ctype functions.

If the standard says undefined, then we should use the most common.

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