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Re: trigraphs, yecch

From Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: trigraphs, yecch
Date 2012-02-01 17:20 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2012-02-01, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> wrote:
> I'm not arguing that trigraphs were a good solution to the problem. But
> restricting editors to 7-bit ASCII was not an acceptable solution,
> either. That's why one of the Scandinavian countries (I forget which
> one) refused to approve the C standard until some accomodation was made
> to the needs of people for whom 7-bit ASCII was unacceptable.

The correct response would have been not to bother with them.  There doesn't
need to be an ISO standard for C; ANSI is good enough. Many fine languages have
only ANSI standards. 

Actual programmers in that Scandinavian country do not require these trigraphs
any more than they require words like "if", "for" and "unsigned" to be
translated into their language, and were just as ill-served by this as everyone
else.

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trigraphs, yecch cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-31 15:55 +0000
  Re: trigraphs, yecch pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-31 11:05 -0500
    Re: trigraphs, yecch Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-31 16:47 +0000
      Re: trigraphs, yecch cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-31 17:21 +0000
        Re: trigraphs, yecch James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-31 12:26 -0500
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-31 11:40 -0600
          Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 15:22 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-02-01 01:09 +0000
              Re: trigraphs, yecch James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-31 22:21 -0500
              Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 21:25 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch "Charles Richmond" <netnews@aquaporin4.com> - 2012-01-31 23:40 -0600
              Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 22:19 -0800
                Re: trigraphs, yecch James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-02-01 08:27 -0500
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-31 17:47 +0000
        Re: trigraphs, yecch ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 09:41 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-31 13:17 -0500
  Re: trigraphs, yecch blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-31 09:56 -0800
  Re: trigraphs, yecch Peter Nilsson <airia@acay.com.au> - 2012-01-31 13:55 -0800
    Re: trigraphs, yecch Harald van Dijk <haraldvdijk@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 14:02 -0800
      Re: trigraphs, yecch blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-31 14:06 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Harald van Dijk <haraldvdijk@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 15:13 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch "Charles Richmond" <netnews@aquaporin4.com> - 2012-01-31 23:44 -0600
          Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 22:20 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch James Harris <james.harris.1@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-31 22:56 -0800
              Re: trigraphs, yecch Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-02-01 12:15 +0000
  Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 15:27 -0800
    Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-01-31 17:01 -0800
      Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 19:50 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-02-01 10:31 -0800
      Re: trigraphs, yecch James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-31 23:17 -0500
        Re: trigraphs, yecch "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2012-02-01 10:39 +0100
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-01 17:20 +0000
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-02-01 11:11 -0800
      Re: trigraphs, yecch "Charles Richmond" <netnews@aquaporin4.com> - 2012-01-31 23:50 -0600
        Re: trigraphs, yecch ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-02-01 11:56 -0600
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-02-01 11:12 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-02-01 13:29 -0600
          Re: trigraphs, yecch blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-02-01 11:35 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-01 19:59 +0000
              Re: trigraphs, yecch blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-02-01 12:41 -0800
                Re: trigraphs, yecch Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-01 22:55 +0000
            Re: trigraphs, yecch Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-02-01 14:44 -0600
              Re: trigraphs, yecch Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-01 22:55 +0000
        Re: trigraphs, yecch "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-02 14:19 -0800
          Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-02-06 20:40 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2012-02-07 11:40 +0100
      Re: trigraphs, yecch jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-02-02 14:15 +0000
  Re: trigraphs, yecch cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-02-01 16:52 +0000

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