Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ANSI C -- trigraphs and character sets Message-ID: <4328@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 02:31:21 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4328 Posted: Thu Dec 18 02:31:21 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 07:36:09 EST References: <106@decvax.UUCP> <5453@brl-smoke.ARPA> <12304@watnot.UUCP> Reply-To: barmar@eddie.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:456 comp.std.internat:58 In article <12304@watnot.UUCP> ccplumb@watnot.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes: >>We (they, actually; that was before my time) tried to do >>essentially that once... >Seriously, if "before your time" means any significant number of years, they >should try again. X3J11 has only been in existence for a couple of years, which I think is less than "any significant number of years." If they ran up against significant pressures then, they most likely will again. IBM hasn't dropped EBCDIC, but there are lots of people who want to use C on IBM equipment. The C standard takes many pains to be character set independent; I remember lots of flaming on mod.std.c about how to word the descriptions of \r, \n, \g, etc., so that they would not obviously discriminate against non-ASCII implementations. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar