Programming and international character sets.

[T. William Wells]

In article <362 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
: >The real problem is trying to write portable code that uses character
: >classes which _aren't_ in <ctype.h>.  Consider isvowel()...
:
: Or, for that matter, consider "toupper()"; what's "toupper()" of a
: German "ss" (or is it "sz") character?

The character is the "Scharfes S" and looks something like a beta.  It
doesn't have an upper case form. When written where an upper case
letter should go, it is written unchanged.  Alternately, it might be
be written "SS".

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Bill
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