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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: <1281@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 29 May 90 05:21:39 GMT
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Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX
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prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
|chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
|> Maybe what is needed is a printable() macro.
|
|You mean along the lines of:
|#ifdef HAS_STABLE_ISPRINT
|#define printable(c) (isprint(c))
|#else
|#define printable(c) (isascii(c) && isprint(c))
|#endif

Yeah.  But the tough part is defining a Configure module which decides
whether or not isprint() should be qualified with isascii().  Asking the
user for the answer is probably not a viable method.

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