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|    Deucе to Git commit to main/sbbs/master    |
|    src/xpdev/unicode.c    |
|    19 Feb 25 21:46:43    |
      TZUTC: -0800       MSGID: 51818.syncprog@1:103/705 2c1cc22d       PID: Synchronet 3.20c-Linux master/64352121b Feb 09 2025 GCC 12.2.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.23-Linux master/4b0ef40fa Feb 16 2025 GCC 12.2.0       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: UTF-8 4       https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/7a220e78f18c03f187e0766e       Modified Files:        src/xpdev/unicode.c       Log Message:       CP437 0x7C is UNICODE_BROKEN_BAR (U+00A6)              Contrary to pouplar belief CP437 does not encode US-ASCII.       US-ASCII has UNICODE_VERTICAL_LINE (U+007C) there (which does match       Unicode)              Aren't you glad your C compiler didn't use CP437?       if (x ??!??! y) is so much uglier than if (x || y)              Of course, with C99 (or C90 with the 1995 ammendment), we would have       seen a lot of iso646.h and the use of the or, bitor, and or_eq macros,       and maybe that would have gotten that whole list of 11 macros promoted       to keywords eventually (Likely in C23) since it's hard to eat just one       peanut.              Of course, that's all alternate history... it's unlikely that any       compiler vendor would actually care, and | and ¦ (or | and ³ for those       using CP437) would be "the same".       --- SBBSecho 3.23-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 105/81 106/201 124/5014 5016 128/187 130/330 153/7715 154/110       SEEN-BY: 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 114 206 317 400 426 428 470       SEEN-BY: 229/550 700 705 266/512 280/464 291/111 320/219 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 387/18 21 25 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 902/26 5075/35       PATH: 103/705 280/464 396/45 229/426           |
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