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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Programming and international character sets.
Keywords: 8 bit characters
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Date: 2 Nov 88 01:09:03 GMT
References: <532@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <605@quintus.UUCP> <362@auspex.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <362@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
: >The real problem is trying to write portable code that uses character
: >classes which _aren't_ in <ctype.h>.  Consider isvowel()...
:
: Or, for that matter, consider "toupper()"; what's "toupper()" of a
: German "ss" (or is it "sz") character?

The character is the "Scharfes S" and looks something like a beta.  It
doesn't have an upper case form. When written where an upper case
letter should go, it is written unchanged.  Alternately, it might be
be written "SS".

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Bill
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