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Re: isascii


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: isascii
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:01:12 +0200
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> isascii is not part of C89, but POSIX:
>>
>> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/isascii.html
>
> Do you know about a system that doesn't have it?

No.  I added it because a workaround for missing isascii was already
part of GnuTLS.

> What about using c_isascii from the c-ctype module?

That could be used in the implementation, but POSIX require that
isascii is a function, and c_isascii seem to return bool rather than
int.  Further, c-ctype is GPL.

Thanks.




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