Detect if execution character set letters are contiguous

How can I detect which execution character set used and/or conclude that the letters are contiguous?

At compile time, simply test them all. ('a-z' left out for simplicity)

static_assert(
  'A' == ('B' - 1) &&
  'B' == ('C' - 1) && 'C' == ('D' - 1) && 'D' == ('E' - 1) && 'E' == ('F' - 1) && 'F' == ('G' - 1) && 'G' == ('H' - 1) && 'H' == ('I' - 1) && 'I' == ('J' - 1) && 'J' == ('K' - 1) && 'K' == ('L' - 1) && 'L' == ('M' - 1) && 'M' == ('N' - 1) && 'N' == ('O' - 1) && 'O' == ('P' - 1) && 'P' == ('Q' - 1) && 'Q' == ('R' - 1) && 'R' == ('S' - 1) && 'S' == ('T' - 1) && 'T' == ('U' - 1) && 'U' == ('V' - 1) && 'V' == ('W' - 1) && 'W' == ('X' - 1) && 'X' == ('Y' - 1) &&
  'Y' == ('Z' - 1), "Dinosaur: not continuous A-Z");

static int digit_value(char c) {
  if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') return c - '0';
  if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') return c - 'A' + 10;
  return -1;
}

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Other dinosaur tests.

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Or use the slow, but highly portable:

static int digit_value(char c) {
  static const char *base36 = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
  const char *p = strchr(base36, (unsigned char) c);
  if (p && *p) {
    return (int) (p - base36);
  }
  return -1;
}

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Or perhaps a big #if?

#if ('A' == ('B' - 1) && 'B' == ('C' - 1) && 'C' == ('D' - 1) && 'D' == ('E' - 1) && 'E' == ('F' - 1) && 'F' == ('G' - 1) && 'G' == ('H' - 1) && 'H' == ('I' - 1) && 'I' == ('J' - 1) && 'J' == ('K' - 1) && 'K' == ('L' - 1) && 'L' == ('M' - 1) && 'M' == ('N' - 1) && 'N' == ('O' - 1) && 'O' == ('P' - 1) && 'P' == ('Q' - 1) && 'Q' == ('R' - 1) && 'R' == ('S' - 1) && 'S' == ('T' - 1) && 'T' == ('U' - 1) && 'U' == ('V' - 1) && 'V' == ('W' - 1) && 'W' == ('X' - 1) && 'X' == ('Y' - 1) && 'Y' == ('Z' - 1))

static int digit_value(char c) {
  if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') return c - '0';
  if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') return c - 'A' + 10;
  return -1;
}

#else

static int digit_value(char c) {
  static const char *base36 = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
  const char *p = strchr(base36, (unsigned char) c);
  if (p && *p) {
    return (int) (p - base36);
  }
  return -1;
}

#endif

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Or .... if UCHAR_MAX not too big and concern about speed, make a lookup table and skip the sequential concerns.

#include <limits.h>
int digit_value(char c) {
  unsigned char val[UCHAR_MAX] = {['0'] = 1, ['1'] = 2, ['2'] = 3, ['3'] = 4,
      ['4'] = 5, ['5'] = 6, ['6'] = 7, ['7'] = 8, ['9'] = 10, 
      ['A'] = 11, ['B'] = 12, ['C'] = 13, ['D'] = 14, ['E'] = 15, ...
      ['a'] = 11, ['b'] = 12, ['c'] = 13, ['d'] = 14, ['e'] = 15, ...
  };
  return val[(unsigned char) c] - 1;
}