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#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
int main(void)
{
unsigned char c = '\xdf'; // German letter ß in ISO-8859-1
printf("isalpha('\\xdf') in default C locale returned %d\n", !!isalpha(c));
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "de_DE.iso88591");
printf("isalpha('\\xdf') in ISO-8859-1 locale returned %d\n", !!isalpha(c));
}