8-bit char problem

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Oct-2002, Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:

| Under mingw and cygwin, toascii(setstr(200)) == 72 and
| toascii(setstr(-100)) == 28.  It seems we only have 7-bit 
| characters to work with.

FWIW, this is also what happens on my Debian system:

  bevo:386> octave
  GNU Octave, version 2.1.36 (i386-pc-linux-gnu).
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  This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
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  octave:1> toascii(setstr(200)) 
  ans = 72
  octave:2> toascii(setstr(-100)) 
  ans = 28

| I'm recompiling with -funsigned-char to see if I can get
| toascii(setstr(200)) == 200, but the proper solution is 
| to tag all chars with unsigned.

This could be somewhat painful, but I suppose it might be worth doing
it.

jwe