Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:27:19 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Wide character support for GCC? Message-ID: <20050527152719.GD15797@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:57:54PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote: >What's the story on wide character support for GCC? Are wchar_t, >std::wstring, etc., still not supported by cygwin? Not fully, no. >If not, what would it take to get wide character support working? Is >there a lot of work involved? Is it something an outside developer >could contribute? What's an "outside developer"? We're all doing this in our spare time. The stub implementation for wide character support is in the newlib library. If you are interested in adding better support you should check out the functions there. Questions should go to the newlib mailing list newlib at sourceware dot org . cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/