From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: BAD strupr, BAD getw
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:42:22 GMT
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 02:44:18 -0400, Radical NetSurfer
<radsmail AT juno DOT com> wrote:

>Tonight we had to create our very own code for
>
>strupr
>
>simply because DJGPP does NOT implement this function
>correctly at ALL :(
>
>experiment strupr():
>
>"abcédef"  -->  "ABCéDEF"   expected!  BORLAND: CORRECT!

Reminds me of "pokémon" --> "POKéMON"

>2) an ACCURATE and properly implemented method of ACTUALLY
>converting Upper/Lower FOREIGN character set should be implemented.

This would require tons of locale support (is it in DJGPP?) for
different codepages (DOS uses 437 or 850; Windows uses 1252; Allegro
uses UTF-8 Unicode...)

>(ah, Mr. Wizard, sir, how do we know an ASCII char represents a
>foreign character, please?)

[snip]

>-------------- problem #2 getw() --------------
>
>also,  getw is defined in LIBC.TXT as:
>
>int getw(FILE *file);
>
>this is INCORRECT!
>
>get-WORD()  should of been defined as:
>
>short getw(FILE*);
>
>as a WORD is "typically/natively" DEFINED AS 16-BIT!

Look at the proto for fgetc() and see what it returns.
C:\>info libc a fgetc
Then you might understand better.

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