Gregory's Server@luna that's very cute, but not strictly guaranteed to work because C doesn't assume ASCII compatible encodings.
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@shaknais @luna I don't think so. That specifies a set of characters that must exist, that they must fit in a byte, and that characters 0-9 must be consecutive and in order. It doesn't mandate that their values match ASCII. I believe EBCDIC would meet the requirements, and it is not ASCII compatible.  Not just characters 0-9, but every character in the original ASCII set must exist, and in order, and be represented by a single increment, beginning with 0. EBCDIC compatibility was dropped in C17, as the standards body couldn't find any still in use. |
@koorogi @luna
5.2.1.3 of ISO/IEC 9899 does actually define the character set as ASCII compatible.