> > That is, The library function 'mblen(3)' doesn't return the error
> > when the second byte is not set MSB.
> > I make the following patch for this problem.
> 
> ...
> 
> > +			/* '0x80-0x9f' are control codes */
> > +			if ((c = (unsigned char)*string++) < 0xa0) {
> 
> I dislike this hardcoded assumption, because it makes sgetrune
> very charset-depended without proper configuration knobs.
> I.e. if it plans to sense control codes, it must be iscntrl()
> instead.
> Could you change this thing?

Hee hee!  8-).  I wondered how long this would last before the KOI-8
people cake out against it... if only they were using the ISO standard
for Coptic languages instead... }B-}.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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