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Subject: Re: CORRECT soundex AGAIN? not quit
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 11:30:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 24 11:30:00 1986
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[Ian Darwin writes:]
>  You are, I fear, hoist by your own petard. We have long maintained
> that the ctype macros are ONLY valid if isascii() is true for the
> character. Well, guess what? The SVID supports us!
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The ANSI standard for C does not support you. In fact, isascii
goes away entirely and the ctype macros are valid for all
values. [Unless they changed their minds after the draft
I've got, which isn't all that old]

[I KNOW discussions shouldn't be here, but here is where the
discussion is...  Apologies to archivists.]
-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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