Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Where is isascii(c)?
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.172351.16374@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 90 17:23:51 GMT

In article <2300@psueea.UUCP> kirkenda@eecs.UUCP (Steve Kirkendall) writes:
>...can we assume that all terminals hooked up to a given computer
>will use the same character set? ...

If not, the kernel (or something associated with it) should translate.
Madness and chaos will ensue if every application has to be prepared for
multiple character sets in its input.
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