From keld@dkuug.dk Thu Sep 19 21:23:31 1991
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From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
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Subject: request for "ident" specification part in LC_CTYPE
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Hello WG15RIN!

(Hello Hal!)

At recent ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 (programming language C) and 
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 (Programming language C++) meetings it has
been decided to allow identifiers in these languages to include
characters dependent on the translation-time locale, e.g. for
which a function is_ident() has a return value of "true". 

Danish Standards would like to have support for this in POSIX.2
locales, and this should also be reflected in the "small" programming
languages defined in POSIX, so that characters belonging to the
"ident" class would be allowed in identifiers in these "small"
programming languages (sh, awk etc.). 

So DS proposes a new standard class in the LC_CTYPE section of the
locale, for inclusion in POSIX.2 section 2.5.2.1:

ident:
Define characters to be classified as identifier characters (allowed
in identifiers in a programming language or the like).
Characters specified for the keyword
alpha
shall automatically belong to this character class.
  
Keld Simonsen