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Re: isspace() & i18n


Hi!

Wednesday, 30 May, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:

CF> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:11:56PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
>>Wednesday, 30 May, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
>>CF> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:57:56PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
>>>>  cygwin calls newlib's isspace() passing it a signed char. this works
>>>>ok for ascii symbols 0x00-0x7f, but fails with, say, cyrillic symbols
>>>> with codes > 0x80. As a result `cd dir-with-last-cyrillic-letter'
>>>>fails as chdir strips last symbols, thinking they're spaces --
>>>>isspace() is called with negative parameter.
>>>>
>>>>Any thoughts as of how we should handle this?
>>
>>CF> Maybe we just need a cygwin_isspace which checks for just tabs and spaces?
>>
>>it's possible, of course, but the problem with referencing negative
>>array indices in is*() remains.
>>
>>i think we should either conform to standard and explicitly convert
>>types or define appropriate strings as unsigned char*, (typedef PATH_STR,
>>perhaps), or define cygwin_is*() as macros that do the conversion, or,
>>as glibc does, expand _ctype to allow indices in range [-128,256].

CF> IMO, "we" should convert the arguments to the is* functions to unsigned
CF> char. This is a decision for the newlib folks though, isn't it?

in actual calls, not in prototypes. newlib's currently takes int as
is*() argument, and is absolutely right because standard says so. it's
a caller's responsibility to provide correct parameters. so conversion
should take place in cygwin code, not in newlib's. mimicking glibc
behavior -- accepting negative arguments to support broken callers, is
newlib folks decision.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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