On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 21:50:10 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > It's isalpha() that's an abomination, exactly because its behaviour varies > between locales.
That depends on the requirements. There are cases where I as a user would be slightly surprised if some code would tell me that e.g. Umlauts are not alphabetic characters. >> And "there's so much broken code already you rely on" should >> never be an excuse to deliberately produce even more broken code. > > I wouldn't call code that assumes 8-bit bytes "broken". I'd call it "sane". Octet != byte. You yourself brought up earlier the example of certain outlandish hardware that uses 32-bit bytes. > Same for EBCDIC. If you have to maintain code inherited from '60s IBM > mainframes, I pity you, but it's a fact that the rest of the world agreed on > ASCII. Fortunately I have not. I simply do not rely on things not guaranteed, and instead put provided library functions to their intended use. I guess we have to agree that our respective mileages vary. Regards Urban _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
