Re: Motion 46: NO
On 2013-07-19 17:31:19 -0500, Ralph Baker Kearfott wrote:
> We might define "default locale." I have been working at this long
> enough to remember systems that only had the 26 upper case Roman
> letters, plus one or two punctuation marks.
Like the Apple ][.
> I'm not even sure they had "[" and "]".
These characters aren't even part of the invariant subset of
ISO/IEC 646:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_646
That's why C had trigraphs for them.
But IMHO, one can consider that one has at least the intersection
of ASCII and EBCDIC.
> My own (perhaps biased) opinion of a "default" is standard 128
> character ASCII, but the expansion of that acronym explicitly
> contains the word "American" in it (/American Standard Code for
> Information Interchange/). There are more recent possibilities that
> may be more inclusive, but perhaps less universally available in
> systems and programming languages (Unicode?). In any case, it might
> not be totally clear what the default locale should be.
In C, the notion of locale is distinct from the notion of character
set or encoding. C implementations may be based on various character
sets, not necessarily based on ASCII. This is unspecified, but there
are minimal requirements.
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