Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:37:13 +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:

> > 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.