On Sex, 09 Abr 2010, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters:
in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about
ASCII character issues, as far as we are concern with portability.
Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can
be found ?
Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian box ?
The aim is to check the portability of my code.
There are still IBM Mainframes around that use EBCDIC (yes, that is
not just an IT legend). I don't know if they can run a UNIX-like OS
and if you can compile your C code to run on it, but even if you
could, I'm not sure someone in possession of such mainframe will lend
it for you to run your tests. :-)
IBM Mainframes apart, I don't think any machine that you should
actually care for is non-ASCII.
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