Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 05:19:43 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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> In-Reply-To: <19990802095028.F64532@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:50:29AM %2B0930 References: <199907311515.IAA67245@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990802095028.F64532@freebie.lemis.com>
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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
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