[uClibc]character sets and uClibc

Manuel Novoa III mnovoa3 at bellsouth.net
Sat Feb 10 22:39:01 UTC 2001


Hello all,

As a result of a discussion with Vladimir, I did some reading and found out
that the C standard does not guarantee that 'a'-'z' and 'A'-'Z' be contiguous
or even ordered.  It does state that '0'-'9' _are_ contiguous and in increasing
order.

This would affect the strtol functions and the ctype functions at least.

What character set assumptions do we want to make for uClibc?
If we want to support more than ASCI, do we want to have a configuration option
to specify ASCI ordering to allow optimized versions of functions?
How much of a demand is there for locale support in uClibc right now?  in the
long term?

Manuel





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