Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 15:14:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, kaleb@x.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510162214.PAA25604@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <fYQaRWmeM5@ache.dialup.demos.ru> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Oct 16, 95 04:44:58 am
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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. > > Well 1003.1 says something about minimal subset to run C pgms. > Comparing ASCII and 8859-1 is clear that ASCII is more minimal. > > Here some explanation of this term taken directly from POSIX > working gtoup ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 - POSIX: locale collection. > They have VERY different locales for POSIX default and 8859-1 > and POSIX default conforms ASCII, see below. > (If someone interested, I can post their 8859-1 locale too). OK. POSIX is IEEE. What does ISO say? I believe it relaxes the values allowable in the "undefined" or "implementation defined" cases. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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