Definition of isprint()

[Henry Spencer]

In article <9182 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>I don't have the proposed standard at hand, but I believe
>that the intention was that in the "C" locale all the C source
>graphic characters (glyphs) plus the space character are
>supposed to satisfy isprint()...

Alas, the wording at the head of section 4.3 (October draft) just says
"implementation-defined" without narrowing it down further.  A footnote
[note that footnotes are not binding on implementors, as they are not
officially part of the standard] pins down what this means for ASCII,
but not more generally.
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