Re: ctype_print returns false for British Pound symbol (and non-ASCII symbols)

Bob wrote:
> Hello, Rasmus.
> 
> Thank you for the excellent advice. I was trying to work out how to call 
> the C-native version of ctype_print, and you managed to explain how to do 
> so in very few bytes of text. (And led me to compile my first C program 
> in Linux. Haven't used C for about fifteen years.)
> 
> I get the exact same output as yourself:
> 
> Ubuntu:~/ctype_print$ ./a £
> 0
> Ubuntu:~/ctype_print$ ./a $
> 16384
> 
> So you're right. It's nothing to do with PHP.
> 
> Which means that my question is now: how do I fix my locale? The £ is 
> definitely in the locale definition file (under "print") for i18n, which 
> is copied into the LC_CTYPE section by en_GB. So am I right in thinking 
> that it should be a valid printable character when using that locale?

Like Norbert asked, which charset are you working in and does it match
your LOCALE?

-Rasmus

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