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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: ELM 2.3 PL0 unofficial patch for 8-bit characters.
Keywords: 8-bit character set patch
Message-ID: <1592@hulda.erbe.se>
Date: 28 May 90 07:49:05 GMT
References: <26597A7A.5CFF@tct.uucp> <1450@hulda.erbe.se> <265D8143.39EE@tct.uucp> <1273@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
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In article <1273@chinacat.Unicom.COM>, chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
> In article <265D8143.39EE@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:

> >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.

You mean along the lines of:

/* Side effects */

#ifdef HAS_STABLE_ISPRINT
#define printable(c) (isprint(c))
#else
#define printable(c) (isascii(c) && isprint(c))
#endif
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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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