Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ANSI C -- trigraphs and character sets Message-ID: <5453@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 12:25:13 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5453 Posted: Mon Dec 15 12:25:13 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Dec-86 18:52:18 EST References: <106@decvax.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 19 Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:423 comp.std.internat:53 In article <106@decvax.UUCP> minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) writes: >Page 10, line 1ff. The Standard should recognize the primacy of the ISO >Latin 1 character set. We (they, actually; that was before my time) tried to do essentially that once, but immediately ran up against the problem that some important vendors much prefer EBCDIC. There doesn't seem to be any strong logical argument for forbidding reasonable non-ISO-conforming character sets. >Page 10, line 34ff. Trigraphs should be deleted from the standard. I could easily back such a proposal; trigraphs appear to be a remnant of a premature attempt to cope with internationalization and are probably neither necessary nor desirable. The above remarks are by no means official X3J11 positions; please go ahead and send in your suggestions to ANSI.