On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:34:12AM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:33:44AM +0000, ross@soi.city.ac.uk wrote:
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:14:25PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
Is there anything LC_CTYPE can be set to that will act like C/POSIX but accept 8-bit bytes as chars too?
en_GB.iso88591 (or indeed any .iso88591 locale) will match the old behaviour (and the GHC behaviour).
This works for me with en_GB.iso88591 (or en_GB), but not en_US.iso88591 (or en_US). My /etc/locale.gen contains:
en_GB ISO-8859-1 en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
So is there anything that /always/ works?
Since systems may have no locale other than C/POSIX, no.
Yes, I don't see how to avoid this when using mbtowc() to do the conversion: it makes no distinction between a bad byte sequence and an incomplete one.
Perhaps you could use mbrtowc instead?
Indeed. Thanks for pointing it out.