Date:	Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:23:32 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: wctype.h: Why is wctrans_t a const unsigned char?
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On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:

> Has
> anyone got any good bookmarks for web pages about wide-character support in
> the standard C library and Unicode?

I'd begin with the Unicode Consortium site, www.unicode.org.  They have 
lots of useful stuff there, including some sample code.

> > Btw, one feature that I sorely miss in DJGPP is the positional format
> > specifiers in printf family (%$1 etc.).  It is required in gettext to be
> > able to rearrange words in translated messages; right-to-left languages
> > such as Arabic and Hebrew need that quite a lot.  Perhaps someone would
> > like to work on that, it shouldn't be hard to implement.
> 
> I thought Juan Manuel Guerrero was looking at that. Maybe I've got my wires
> crossed.

Or maybe my memory failed me (again).

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