Re: EBCDIC support?
Eric Blake <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jack Woehr on 7/29/2008 10:28 PM: | Can anyone point me to any GNU m4 documentation having to do with | EBCDIC support or lack thereof? The manual doesn't really state much on this matter. Most of m4's processing is byte based (so no multibyte characters), and m4 uses <ctype.h> to distinguish between the various character types (so it should generally be EBCDIC safe). The only exceptions I know of is that using a range operator (such as 'a-z' as the second or third argument to translit, or '[a-z]' as the regular expression in regexp or patsubst) will probably work incorrectly, since those are not contiguous bytes in EBCDIC; spell out the range yourself. A few of the tests in the testsuite will probably fail because they assume ASCII or Latin-1 encoding. I don't have access to an EBCDIC system (and these days, they are quite rare), but if you encounter any bugs, feel free to report them. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiQV1oACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDcPQCcD+Q2APj2y4uskbiCCzSkVNVB JdAAn2NcpmN1B1C0rhNZjAMOluriqMbR =1kDp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----