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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Definition of isprint()
Message-ID: <1988Dec15.181144.2066@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <474@sdrc.UUCP> <9182@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 18:11:44 GMT

In article <9182@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>I don't have the proposed standard at hand, but I believe
>that the intention was that in the "C" locale all the C source
>graphic characters (glyphs) plus the space character are
>supposed to satisfy isprint()...

Alas, the wording at the head of section 4.3 (October draft) just says
"implementation-defined" without narrowing it down further.  A footnote
[note that footnotes are not binding on implementors, as they are not
officially part of the standard] pins down what this means for ASCII,
but not more generally.
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