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Re: isspace() & i18n
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: isspace() & i18n
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:52:54 -0400
- References: <13254193676.20010530145756@logos-m.ru>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:57:56PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
>Hi!
>
> 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?
Maybe we just need a cygwin_isspace which checks for just tabs and spaces?
cgf