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Top Forums Programming Executable file in C Post 302336927 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 23rd of July 2009 06:00:56 AM
Old 07-23-2009
Characters like that are usually unprintable because they are not ASCII, i.e., characters less than 128 in the C (POSIX) locale

isprint() and other functions that classify characters base their decisions on the locale.

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The isprint() function shall test whether c is a character of class print in the program's current locale; see the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001

localedef is used to set up what characters in a non-standard locale are printable.

To answer you question, it sounds like your code is running against a character codeset that is not compliant with your locale - and your old program was not working correctly when it said it could print a non-ascii character.

post the code.
 

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iswalpha(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 					      iswalpha(3C)

NAME
iswalpha, isenglish, isideogram, isnumber, isphonogram, isspecial, iswalnum, iswascii, iswblank, iswcntrl, iswdigit, iswgraph, iswlower, iswprint, iswpunct, iswspace, iswupper, iswxdigit - wide-character code classification functions SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h> #include <wctype.h> int iswalpha(wint_t wc); int isenglish(wint_t wc); int isideogram(wint_t wc); int isnumber(wint_t wc); int isphonogram(wint_t wc); int isspecial(wint_t wc); int iswalnum(wint_t wc); int iswascii(wint_t wc); int iswblank(wint_t wc); int iswcntrl(wint_t wc); int iswdigit(wint_t wc); int iswgraph(wint_t wc); int iswlower(wint_t wc); int iswprint(wint_t wc); int iswpunct(wint_t wc); int iswspace(wint_t wc); int iswupper(wint_t wc); int iswxdigit(wint_t wc); DESCRIPTION
These functions test whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of a particular class defined in the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. In all cases, wc is a wint_t, the value of which must be a wide-character code corresponding to a valid character in the current locale or must equal the value of the macro WEOF. If the argument has any other values, the behavior is undefined. iswalpha(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "alpha" in the program's current locale. isenglish(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing an English language character, excluding ASCII characters. isideogram(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing an ideographic language character, excluding ASCII characters. isnumber(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing digit [0-9], excluding ASCII characters. isphonogram(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a phonetic language character, excluding ASCII characters. isspecial(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a special language character, excluding ASCII characters. iswalnum(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "alpha" or "digit" in the program's current locale. iswascii(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing an ASCII character. iswblank(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "blank" in the program's current locale. This function is not available to applications conforming to standards prior to SUSv3. See standards(5). iswlower(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "lower" in the program's current locale. iswcntrl(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "cntrl" in the program's current locale. iswdigit(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "digit" in the program's current locale. iswgraph(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "graph" in the program's current locale. iswprint(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "print" in the program's current locale. iswpunct(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "punct" in the program's current locale. iswspace(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "space" in the program's current locale. iswupper(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "upper" in the program's current locale. iswxdigit(wc) Tests whether wc is a wide-character code representing a character of class "xdigit" in the program's current locale. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |See below. | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe with exceptions | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ The iswalpha(), iswalnum(), iswblank(), iswcntrl(), iswdigit(), iswgraph(), iswlower(), iswprint(), iswpunct(), iswspace(), iswupper(), and iswxdigit() functions are Standard. SEE ALSO
localedef(1), setlocale(3C), stdio(3C), ascii(5), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 19 Apr 2004 iswalpha(3C)
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