[Info-vax] character set translation for language accents

[Bob Koehler]

In article <gsare3$4tb$1 at naig.caltech.edu>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> getchar (getc) normally return EOF as -1, which will cause
> problems with the 0xFF character.  If you use them for table
> lookup either and with 0xff or use unsigned char.

   Which is why getchar returns an int instead of a char.  As long
   as your char are unsigned (int) -1 != (char) 0xff.