Re: [PATCHES] Changes in /contrib/fulltextindex

"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Good idea. Is there a locale-aware version of isalpha anywhere?
>>
>> If there is - I couldn't find it. I did find a lot of frustated
>> posts about isalpha and locale-awareness although.

> Yeah, I can't find anything in the man pages either. Maybe we can ask the
> list. People?

Huh? isalpha() *is* locale-aware according to the ANSI C spec.
For instance, the attached test program finds 52 alpha characters
in C locale and 114 in fr_FR locale under HPUX.

I am not at all sure that this aspect of Florian's change is a good
idea, as it appears to eliminate locale-awareness in favor of a hard
coded delimiter list.

regards, tom lane

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <locale.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i;

setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)
if (isalpha(i))
printf("%d %c\n", i, i);

return 0;
}