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From: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: trigraphs in X3J11
Message-ID: <879@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 15:48:22 GMT
References: <5215@ico.ISC.COM> <10949@apple.Apple.Com> <11655@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: meissner@tiktok.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.)
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In article <11655@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
| 
| I think the `#trigraph' suggestion is a suitable way to keep trigraphs
| from affecting old code and/or infesting new code.

Unfortunately, the problem with #trigraph and others of it's ilk, is
that '#' is one of the characters replaced in European 7-bit character
sets.
-- 
Michael Meissner, Data General.

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