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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


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