Re: lynx-dev Re: 8-bit characters in EDITTEXTAREA

[dickey]

> 
> On Wed, Feb 10, 1999, Leonid Pauzner (address@hidden) said: 
> | 
> | > It shouldn't be "8-bit chars" that get replaced with a ".", but only 
> | > "control chars" (ie, chars with numeric values below a SPACE, in either 
> | > ASCII or EBCDIC). 
> | 
> | No, Kim, chars from 128-255 really being translated to dots, 
> | I was checking it with dev16 just now. 
> | They are not control, probably wrong condition (typo). 
>  
> Nah.  My oversight for not using (unsigned char). 
>  
> I suppose I'll just switch to using iscntrl(), as Tom (I think) suggested 
> awhile back, and trust in the portability of that fn(). 

not all platforms have a working 8-bit ctype, though (recalling that, I
left the comparison as you had it).
  
> Sorry about that. 
>  
> Patchlet to follow ... 
>  
> /kim  (whose face is now a pinkish-red color) 


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