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Re: Implementing Universal Character Names in identifiers
On 28-Oct-2002, Martin v. Löwis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > (3) The ranges need to be updated from the latest Unicode standard,
> > and the standard version noted in commentary.
>
> No. They are mandated by the language specification. For C++, see
> Annex E. For C99, see Annex D (unfortunately, I can't, since I don't
> have the final copy of C99). C++ claims to have copied the table from
> PDTR 10176, C from TR 10176.
>
> *If* my C99 draft is accurate, then there are differences between
> these two tables: e.g. in C99, U+00AA (FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR)
> is acceptable in an identifier; in C++98, it is not.
Your C99 draft is accurate in this respect.
I have the final C99 standard and it includes U+00AA.
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