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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:49:12 -0700
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> On 4/10/25 15:14, James Kuyper wrote:
> ...
>> According to the C89 Rationale
>
> Note: I have the C89 Rationale in PDF format. I an using an Ubuntu Linux
> machine, and am viewing the file with the "Document Viewer" program. I
> copied the text from that program, and pasted it into a Thunderbird
> message window. All occurrences of "ff" and "fi" in the text got
> converted to whitespace. Does anyone have any idea why that might have
> happened?

I don't know why they appear as whitespace.  They *should* appear as ff
(FB00;LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF) and fl (FB02;LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FL).
But for something that old, it's not surprising that there are problems
with non-ASCII characters.

Do you have a URL for a PDF C89 Rationale?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */