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Subject: trying to catch the triple '\0342', '\0200', '\0220' but cannot.
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Gary Kline writes:

>  	can somebody help me catch the OOo "'" (aposhtrophe)?  It's a triplet
>  	of the hex chars, xe2, x80, x90, which should be seeable by getchar()
>  	[[or *not*?]].  The octal are 0342, 0200, and 0220.
>  
>  	The first is, is a-circumflex.  Why doesn't 
>  
>  		if ((ch1 = getchar()) == '\0342') or, more simply,
>  		if ((ch1 = getchar()) == '\342')
>  	catch the first?  Is getchar limited to only 7 bytes??

	Perhaps you want getwc()?


			Robert Huff