On Jun 15 10:45, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > these functions be replaced with multibyte-aware versions? Along the > > same lines, the entire set of safe-ctype functions only work for ASCII > > and EBCDIC... > > That's the whole point of safe-ctype: that code that is processing things > such as C source code whose semantics do not depend on the host locale can > examine character properties in a locale-independent way. Where C source > code has multibyte characters, the correct handling depends in detail on > the version of C and cannot be done by generic code.
Ok, I see. Just in this specific case it's about filenames, not C source. I don't think it makes sense to restrict filenames to ASCII or EBCDIC chars. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat
