Re: prg2lout and 8-bit characters

[Michael Piotrowski]

Reimer Behrends <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Yes, if one is using gcc, this is a possible solution.  However, not
all compilers provide this option, among them the HP C compiler I'm
using on HP-UX.  So, using unsigned char is more portable.

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Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                                  <address@hidden>