Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!goanna!ok From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: How can I de-escape my strings at run time? Message-ID: <3143@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Date: 4 Jun 90 02:48:13 GMT References: <6550.26639B0A@puddle.fidonet.org> <2596@litchi.bbn.com> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 14 In article <:9W3JZ3@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: : I'm mildly surprised X3.159 doesn't include \e for escape, since they : added \xNN \a and so on... was it considered? In article , meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) wrote: : It came up a few times. The problem is that ANSI C is not mandated to : require ASCII (or even ISO646). EBCDIC is the classic counterpoint. Er, EBCDIC _has_ an ESC character. Are there any character sets C is known to be used with that haven't? -- "A 7th class of programs, correct in every way, is believed to exist by a few computer scientists. However, no example could be found to include here."