[Libvir] [PATCH] Enhance virBuffer code
Jim Meyering
jim at meyering.net
Fri Dec 14 10:25:07 UTC 2007
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> What do you think of using this?
>>
>> isascii (*p) && isalnum (*p)
>
> I'm not sure I'm qualified to say what this does on EBCDIC, but quite
> likely lots of other code breaks there too anyway. This is nicely
> self-documenting anyway.
As Daniel suggested, isalnum is locale-sensitive.
If there's a locale with an alphabetic byte that is outside
the logical a-zA-Z range, yet still within 0..127, then the above
expression will give a false-positive for that byte.
I've been inclined to stop worrying about EBCDIC for years, but a quick
search on the web finds that people are still stuck using it, and do
report bugs in ASCII-assuming code.
This is why autoconf goes to the trouble of doing this:
tr abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
not this:
tr a-z A-Z
to convert to upper case.
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