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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.
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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.