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On 07/23/2017 02:05 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Am 22.07.2017 18:16, schrieb Andris Pavenis (andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]:
>> On 07/22/2017 01:28 AM, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>> Am 21.07.2017 14:56, schrieb Andrew Wu (andrewwu DOT tw AT gmail DOT com) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]:
>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> Any method to support wstring in DJGPP?
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> No, if no one implements this stuff from scratch.
>>> DJGPP 2.05 with gcc 7.1.0 has never supported neither wide characters nor multi byte strings.
>>> This is also true for any previous version of DJGPP no matter what gcc version has been used.
>>> It is very unlikely that some developer will volunteer to implement this stuff for DJGPP.
>>> In the very best case you will have to find some auxiliar library that provides the missing
>>> functionality. But I doubt that that will solve all issues.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Juan M. Guerrero
>>>
>> There was actually implementation of wide character support almost 20 years ago. Some of mails 
>> at DJGPP workers (not all of them) are
>>
>> http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp-workers/1998/09/10/18:45:06
>>
>> http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp-workers/1998/09/15/09:53:11
>>
>> http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp-workers/1998/09/11/13:02:03
>>
>> Original URL from last of these mails do not respond now and it did no more contain the files 
>> when I looked last time long ago as far as I remember.
>>
>> The problem is that that nobody took the work of actually integrating these additions in DJGPP 
>> libc then. Good news is that I still have these files laying around
>>
>> http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/misc/
>>
>> I raised this topic before releasing DJGPP v2.05. It was then decided to postpone it.
>>
>> Andris
>>
>
>
> Some remarks about the code:

This is was unedited archive from very end last century, so not surprising that we have different 
requirements now almost 20 years later.
I have not looked into details of the patch from the previous message. I still think that we need 
to get in what we already have separately.

Andris