On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:34:12AM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:33:44AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:14:25PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > > Is there anything LC_CTYPE can be set to that will act like C/POSIX but > > > accept 8-bit bytes as chars too? > > > > en_GB.iso88591 (or indeed any .iso88591 locale) will match the old > > behaviour (and the GHC behaviour). > > This works for me with en_GB.iso88591 (or en_GB), but not en_US.iso88591 > (or en_US). My /etc/locale.gen contains: > > en_GB ISO-8859-1 > en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 > en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > So is there anything that /always/ works?
Since systems may have no locale other than C/POSIX, no. > > Yes, I don't see how to avoid this when using mbtowc() to do the > > conversion: it makes no distinction between a bad byte sequence and an > > incomplete one. > > Perhaps you could use mbrtowc instead? Indeed. Thanks for pointing it out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]