X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SARE_SUB_PCT_LETTER X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FD5F3D7.8060702@sister-shadow.de> References: <4FD5EB79.6060707@sister-shadow.de> <4FD5F3D7.8060702@sister-shadow.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:49:03 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: s?wprintf family of functions has broken %s formatter output From: =?UTF-8?Q?V=C3=A1clav_Zeman?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 11 June 2012 15:34, Otto Meta wrote: >> 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 Thank you for pointing this out. I guess I will use %ls and wchar_t literals for compatibility. But still, this kind of stuff makes me sad. -- VZ -- 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