X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D4AA63A.50903@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:57:30 +0100 From: Ulf Zibis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggert CC: Bruno Haible , bug-coreutils , cygwin , bug-gnulib@gnu.org, Eric Blake Subject: Re: bug#7948: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin References: <201101310304.42975.bruno@clisp.org> <4D46EA2B.1010307@redhat.com> <201102021229.04623.bruno@clisp.org> <4D4999BA.2030100@cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <4D4999BA.2030100@cs.ucla.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hi, I think there is a kind of similar bug in discussion on GNU: bug#7960: [PATCH] fmt: fix formatting multibyte text (bug #7372) -Ulf Am 02.02.2011 18:51, schrieb Paul Eggert: > On 02/02/11 03:29, Bruno Haible wrote: >> - Define a type 'wwchar_t' on all platforms, equivalent to uint32_t >> on Windows platforms and to 'wchar_t' otherwise. > As a minor point, would it be OK to call this type > 'xchar_t' instead? 'x' is the successor to 'w', after all, > and it can be thought of as an abbreviation for 'eXtended'. > > A problem with the 'ww' prefix is that mentally I start thinking > "World Wide ..." > > > > -- 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