Cyrillic letters proplem

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 10:35, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:01, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 05:03, ybrnj80 wrote:
> > > It seems like support of cyrillic letters
> > > ( or possibly all !is_alpha() ascii codes )
> >
> > We haven't got any internationalization support, we currently treat it
> > all as 8 bit ascii.
>
> 7bit ascii ... the 8th bit should always be ignored right ?

Nope, we pass it through unmodified.  No reason to strip it out.  (We don't 
pay any special _attention_ to it, but if you tell us to echo or sed high 
ascii, we'll do it.  Nothing special about that.  -funsigned-char is your 
friend. :)

> > Your C library may or may not have some
> > internationalization support for us to inherit, and we have plans to
> > treat everyting as UTF-8 when we get around to it.
>
> as long as nls can be toggle off i'm happy ;)

What exactly supporting UTF-8 requires above and beyond being 8-bit clean is 
something I'm still a little unclear on, hence the TODO item when I have time 
and inclination to learn about it (or somebody else gets inspired).

> -mike

Rob
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