Re: wctomb() accepts out-of-range character in C-locale

> 2024/03/25 20:26, Bruno Haible <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> But a wide character >= 0x80 can't be converted into a valid
>>> character in C-loccale (7bit), I think.
> 
> Err. "C" locale, a.k.a. "POSIX" locale, is not 7-bit but 8-bit.
> Quoting https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/basedefs/V1_chap06.html#tag_06_02 :
>  "The POSIX locale shall contain 256 single-byte characters ..."

I still can't understand why it is useful to convert wide char
in the range 0x80-0xff to an 8bit char in C-locale (for example
convert wide char 0xe1 (U+00e1) = á to an 8bit char 0xe1).

But if you say this is THE correct behavior then it's OK.