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On Feb 2 17:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 2 17:02, Bruno Haible wrote: > > But if you say that the application should convert UTF-16 surrogates > > to UTF-32 before calling iswalpha: That's certainly a requirement > > for Cygwin 1.7.x application that want to support the entire Unicode > > character set. But it's outside of POSIX, and many GNU programs will > > not want to include this added complexity. Just try to apply this > > suggestion to gnulib's quotearg.c, then estimate the time someone > > would need to apply it also to regcomp.c, strftime.c, mbscasestr.c, > > coreutils/src/wc.c, and so on. > > Cygwin's regcomp is taken from FreeBSD and is UTF-16 capable, including > surrogate handling. It only required two changes in the code. Btw., I would be sure glad if Cygwin would use a wchar_t of 4 bytes as well. The problem is that this requires too many changes at once to work right, and it would introduce a lot of backward compatibility problems which would have to be handled. If only the one's who decided that wchar_t in Cygwin should have the same size as WCHAR_T in the underlying Windows would have thought twice about the implications... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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