From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 1 18:20: 5 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from deep-thought.demos.su (deep-thought.demos.su [195.133.1.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E6C14DB7; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 18:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@deep-thought.demos.su) Received: (from ache@localhost) by deep-thought.demos.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA37938; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 05:19:43 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 05:19:43 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Greg Lehey Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/groff/libgroff illegal.cc Message-ID: <19990802051943.A37897@nagual.pp.ru> References: <199907311515.IAA67245@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990802095028.F64532@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <19990802095028.F64532@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:50:29AM +0930 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:50:29AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > Is there any reason to make any of the characters 0200-0217 legal? I > didn't think any ISO character set uses them to represent characters. ISO charsets are not only charsets in the world. KOI8-R charset use all positions above 0177. Many IBM charsets use all positions. If charset have 256 positions, all supposed to be legal, without holes. ISO restriction follows stupid VT-family makers decision. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message