Re: prg2lout and 8-bit characters

[Reimer Behrends]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:49:09AM +0100, Michael Piotrowski wrote:
[...]
> Because I urgently needed umlauts in a program (linguistic processing
> of German), I just took the brute force approach and replaced all
> declarations of char with unsigned char.  The compiler complains a
> lot, probably because the string.h functions expect char (some casts
> should fix this), but it does work fine now.

Just a quick note: Using "gcc -funsigned-char" is often an easier
solution to the problem of signed chars wreaking havoc. If you're
using gcc, that is.

                        Reimer Behrends