X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SARE_SUB_PCT_LETTER X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FD5F3D7.8060702@sister-shadow.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:34:15 +0200 From: Otto Meta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: s?wprintf family of functions has broken %s formatter output References: <4FD5EB79.6060707@sister-shadow.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 > I have done some more checking and I might have been wrong about the > Ubuntu and Linux in general. It looks like the formatting strings are > incompatible between MSVC and *NIX. It appears that either %S (SUSv2) > or %ls (C99) is needed on *NIX. MSVC switches the meaning of %s for > wprintf() (http://linux.die.net/man/3/printf). Changing %s in your test program to %ls works for me on Ubuntu. Have you tried %ls in MSVC? That should work as well, according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/tcxf1dw6%28v=vs.80%29.aspx Otto -- 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