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Date:      Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:14:20 -0400
From:      Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su, bde@zeta.org.au, zeta.org.au!bde@dg-rtp.dg.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, kaleb@x.org
Subject:   Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199510161314.JAA02829@lakes>

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> 
> >Bruce, I agree with you and POSIX agree with us.
> >Default table must be strict ASCII per POSIX.
> >So, we can close this table propogating subject.
> 
> Does POSIX mention ASCII?  ANSI allows other encodings
> of course, and is only strict for letters and digits,
> but only letters are very important.
> 
> Bruce
> 

POSIX explicitly does *not* mention ASCII.  The OE/MVS POSIX
system on the 370 mainframe (which is POSIX conforming according
to IBM) is implemented in EBCDIC.

	- Dave Rivers -



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