Re: using the interfaces in ctype.h

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>]

>>> As a result those who live with iso-8859-* locales do not see this
>>> problem.  These charsets just do not define 0xFF symbol.
>> Huh?  8859-1, possibly the most heavily used 8859-* set, puts LATIN
>> SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS on 0xff.
> Ever used LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIARESIS? :)

Probably at least once.  Not often, though - I don't know Dutch, which
is the major user I know of for ÿ.  I've probably used ÿ more than I've
used, say, ª, though.  And how useful it is is irrelevant in context;
the post I was responding to was claiming there wasn't anything defined
there, which is just _wrong_.

In passing, I really wish 8859-1 (and Unicode) had chosen a more
generally correct description of the two-dots "accent".  ö, for
example, is usually o-with-diaeresis in English but o-with-umlaut in
German.

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