Rational Ranges [was Re: gnulib regex lib]

[arnold]

Hi.

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Rather than spend much time worring about this little comment, it'd
> probably be more helpful to document the intended behavior of rational
> ranges. As I understand it, Arnold wants them to use byte values in
> unibyte locales and wide character values in multibyte locales,

Yes, that's right. It's particularly important for the single
byte locales.

> and this
> intent is worth mentioning somewhere central, particularly since there
> are multiple places in the code where it is not implemented properly.

Can you elaborate? Is it mainly in the LIBC part of the code that it's
not implemented correctly?

Thanks,

Arnold