[Info-vax] character set translation for language accents

[JF Mezei]

Steven Schweda wrote:

>    And you've tried this?  I'd like to see that demonstration.
> Around here:


Ok, perhaps for printf it works. But if you have signed characters, you
get some interesting problems when doing comparisons.

Basically, it will tell you that e9 is greater than eA. If you have code
that tests to see if a signed character is greater than 127, it will
always fail since numerixcally, signed characters that are above 127 end
up as negative numbers.

If you do bit shifting, signed characters will have the "fill in the
gap" with the sign bit.