Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!orcenl!bengsig From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Dumb question: What IS a trigraph? Message-ID: <479.nlhp3@oracle.nl> Date: 18 Aug 89 09:30:21 GMT References: <3566@uwovax.uwo.ca> <10762@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands Lines: 21 Article <10762@smoke.BRL.MIL> by gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) says: |Unless you're importing a lot of code from |European sites or are implementing a C compiler, you shouldn't have to |be concerned about trigraphs, ... Well, I don't think that any Europeans use trigraphs. We use one of the alter- natives: - Get a terminal like yours (i.e. US-style) and give a damm about our own funny characters - we never program in our own language anyway. - Use a terminal (and software such as vi, sh, etc.) with 8-bit support - Use nationalized terminals, where e.g. } looks like an 'a' with a small ring above it (try typing ComposeCharacter a * on a vt220). You can actually get used to such ugly looking C programs :-( -- Bjorn Engsig, ORACLE Europe \ / "Hofstadter's Law: It always takes Path: mcvax!orcenl!bengsig X longer than you expect, even if you Domain: bengsig@oracle.nl / \ take into account Hofstadter's Law"