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From: Masahiro SEKIGUCHI <seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: support for symbolic character names
In-Reply-To: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
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I have a basic question.

What is the purpose of these two functions?  Or, in other words,
what kind of application will use them?

The only usage I could imagine was to implement localdef-level
utilities.  If so, I don't think it is out of scope of the C
standardization.

Am I missing some points?


By the way,

> In wchar_t character and string constants, occurrances of the
> form \<scn> are replaced with the scntowc(scn) value.

I don't understand the meaning of the above sentence.  Could you
explain more, Keld?