Re: Unicode in C Sources

From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Unicode in C Sources
Date	2020-04-02 07:50 -0700
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> In C90, the set of extended characters was implementation-defined, both
> in the source and execution character sets.  They therefore could not be
> used by code that needs to be maximally portable,  but not all code
> needs to be that portable.
> However, the only places where the syntax allowed for extended
> characters was character constants, string literals, and header names.
>
> C99 changed that, by also allowing an implementation-defined set of
> extended characters to appear in identifiers.  Of course,  maximally
> portable code cannot take advantage of that fact, but as I said above,
> not all code needs to be that portable.
>
> It seems quite reasonable to me to, in a short summary of the changes
> from C90, refer to that change using the phrase "extended
> identifiers".  It also seems reasonable to me to assume that that phrase
> refers to that change.  It might also refer to the change you refer to,
> though that seems unlikely to me.  I consider it even less likely that
> it refers only to the change that you mentioned.  The term "extended"
> plays a key role in the text that's relevant to the change I was
> talking about, it plays no such role in the text describing the change
> that you're talking about.

Is there some reason you didn't quote the remark you're
responding to?

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Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-02-19 12:30 -0800
  Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-19 14:19 -0800
    Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-04-02 07:50 -0700
      Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-04-02 08:16 -0700

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