Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nbires!ico!rcd
From: rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: trigraphs in X3J11
Summary: the \xxx notation instead of trigraphs - doesn't work
Message-ID: <5392@ico.ISC.COM>
Date: 25 May 88 00:22:06 GMT
References: <5215@ico.ISC.COM> <10949@apple.Apple.Com>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp, Boulder, CO
Lines: 12

In article <10949@apple.Apple.Com>, lenoil@Apple.COM (Robert Lenoil) writes:
> Dick is dead right here.  What is the justification for breaking existing
> programs when the ability to include untypeable characters into strings already
> exists via the \xxx mechanism?...

The problem is that backslash is one of the characters which does not exist
in the European character sets of concern!  You can't use backslash to
dodge the problem, because you don't have backslash!  (That is one of the
little nits that makes it such a nasty problem.)
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