From: Alain Magloire 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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 ---- Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!