From:	Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id:	<199904161426.KAA22293@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject:	Re: v2.x release: features ?
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:26:49 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To:	<199904150334.DAA77920@out2.ibm.net> from "Mark E." at Apr 14, 99 11:34:34 pm
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Bonjour Mark

> > 3) I18N
> > ISO C/amd 1, wide chars, multibyte strings.  Boring work not
> > use widely, the commitees are still fighting for the *right*
> > set of chars, UTF ? Unicode ? pfff .. !
> 
> I started on wide chars a while back, but other things then grabbed my 
> attention. Eventually, if no one else does it, I'll start on it again 
> eventually. The first thing that needs to be done is to make wchar_t an 
> unsigned long to match the 32-bit length of the UCS-4 Unicode 
> character and change wint_t to match. UTF-8 is a good candidate for 
> the multibyte encoding since it's in wide use already (its the charset of 
> HTML 4 for example) and converting between UCS-4 and UTF-8 is not 
> difficult.

Great !!
DJ was also refering to another library, I think it was lw03
that may serve as a reference.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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