Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!chinacat!chip
From: chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: ELM 2.3 PL0 unofficial patch for 8-bit characters.
Keywords: 8-bit character set patch
Message-ID: <1273@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 26 May 90 21:24:04 GMT
References: <26597A7A.5CFF@tct.uucp> <1450@hulda.erbe.se> <265D8143.39EE@tct.uucp>
Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX
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In article <265D8143.39EE@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>[re: isascii() && isprint() vs. 8-bit chars]
>You can't, at least not portably.  You need another method of
>determining what's printable, because isprint() won't cut it.

Maybe what is needed is a printable() macro.  Elm already uses a
whitespace() macro which gets around the analogous isspace() problems.

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