Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: ELM 2.3 PL0 unofficial patch for 8-bit characters. Keywords: 8-bit character set patch Message-ID: <265D8143.39EE@tct.uucp> Date: 25 May 90 19:02:27 GMT References: <1445@hulda.erbe.se> <26597A7A.5CFF@tct.uucp> <1450@hulda.erbe.se> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 11 According to prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson): >In article <26597A7A.5CFF@tct.uucp>, chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >> So it is not portable to call isprint() unless isascii() is true. > >If so, how could one possibly use isprint() to identify printable, non- >ASCII characters? You can't, at least not portably. You need another method of determining what's printable, because isprint() won't cut it. -- Chip, the new t.b answer man ,