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> This is not the only bug running around in toupper/tolower.  While
> some systems have this implementation, other versions (among which
> is the Fortune) do not do any sanity check, they just add/subtract
> 0x20, thus transforming numerals into control codes or letters,
> depending on the direction of conversion...

This was the original definition of toupper/tolower.  It was not a bug;
the domain of legal arguments was letters of the opposite case, period.
This way if you knew the nature of the argument, the overhead of the
check was unnecessary; if you didn't, you were supposed to do the check
first.  So many people were sloppy about it that inadequate domain
checking became a characteristic error when using these macros.  So the
definition was eventually changed.  Implementations that don't check are
not buggy:  they are conforming correctly to an earlier, and arguably less
desirable (certainly less idiot-proof), version of the specs.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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