Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Dumb question: What IS a trigraph? Message-ID: <10777@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 18 Aug 89 21:57:04 GMT References: <3566@uwovax.uwo.ca> <10762@smoke.BRL.MIL> <479.nlhp3@oracle.nl> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 12 In article <479.nlhp3@oracle.nl> bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes: >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. I didn't say they did. In the future, once there is a sufficient desity of standard-conforming C implementations, it is possible that C source files being transported between sites that operate in radically different environments will often be mapped to/from trigraphs to avoid national character-set problems during the port.