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Yep, I can just use an unsigned char and it works fine as -93 is then 163.

I would still like to sought out this thing where cout<<'£'; produces ú on the command line though.

I think windows is...

I can get the pound sign to output in the windows console its 156 in the extended ASCII character set (at least the one I'm using, I have been reading that there are more versions).

The problem...

Something I have just discovered (which is very strange),

cout<<'£';

will produce ú and not £ as you would have thought, what’s going on?

I am using VC++ 2005 on a Windows XP SP2 platform,...

When I call isalnum() with the pound (£) sign I get an error like this,

Debug Assertion Failed!

Program:...
File: isctype.c
Line: 56

Expression: (unsigned)(c + 1) <= 256

OK thanks.

Thanks for the quick reply. So does that mean that I’m not going to be able to find the source for the strcpy function anywhere?

I know this is perhaps a dumb question. I can’t find the code for strcpy() any where, anybody got any suggestions?

I have looked in string.h and cstring but can’t find the code. I am using
MS...