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'''Normative Addendum 1''' (also known as '''NA1''', '''C94''', and '''C95''') is a standardized amendment to the [[C]] standard published in 1995 by ISO. The amendment was added in order to address the growing international need for international character sets support in [[C]]. The amendment is formally known as '''ISO/IEC 9899/AMD1:1995''' (also ISO/IEC 9899 AM1). | '''Normative Addendum 1''' (also known as '''NA1''', '''C94''', and '''C95''') is a standardized amendment to the [[C]] standard published in 1995 by ISO. The amendment was added in order to address the growing international need for international character sets support in [[C]]. The amendment is formally known as '''ISO/IEC 9899/AMD1:1995''' (also ISO/IEC 9899 AM1). | ||
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== New headers == | == New headers == | ||
| − | NA1 introduces 3 new standard headers: | + | NA1 introduces 3 new standard headers: [[iso646.h|<iso646.h>]], [[wchar.h|<wchar.h>]], and [[wctype.h|<wctype.h>]]; all of which are mandatory. |
== International keyboard == | == International keyboard == | ||
| − | Due to growing international interest in the C language and the lack of some characters in various international keyboards, NA1 introduced | + | Due to growing international interest in the C language and the lack of some characters in various international keyboards, NA1 introduced [[iso646.h|<iso646.h>]] which defined 11 new macros that expand to operators that use ''&'', ''|'', ''~'', ''!'', and ''^''. For example the macro and_eq expands into &=. |
== Wide characters == | == Wide characters == | ||
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| − | Due to the lack of standardization of underling character set, it makes it very hard to write portable applications that takes advantage of wide characters since the size and the encoding varies significantly from implementation to implementation. This issue was addressed with the introduction of | + | Due to the lack of standardization of underling character set, it makes it very hard to write portable applications that takes advantage of wide characters since the size and the encoding varies significantly from implementation to implementation. This issue was addressed with the introduction of UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 encoded strings in [[C11]] version of the C standard. |
[[Category:C programming language]] | [[Category:C programming language]] | ||
[[Category:C standards]] | [[Category:C standards]] | ||
