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From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date: 11 Jan 2002 15:24:39 +0900
In-Reply-To: Christopher Faylor's message of Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:18:55 -0500
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>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:18:55 -0500
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> said:

> I can't believe that it would work correctly for Windows unicode, though.

You're right. It works correctly only for Japanese code sets.
It enables functions handling multi-byte characters (mbtowc,
wctomb, mblen, and so on) to support Japanese code sets.

If you build newlib with -DMB_CAPABLE, Japanese users will be
wild with a joy. This option has no side effects on other
languages, so we will lose nothing by it.
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