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On 07/23/2017 04:22 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
>
> I do not understand what are the impediments to commit what we already have
> (aka wchar.zip and after having fixed everthing).  There is absolute no
> release planed for the near future so we have years ahead to adjust the
> code of wchar.zip and to implement what is possible to implement at all
> and to fix the issues that all this may rise.
>
> As I have tried to explained, all the code is a simple copy of the equivalent
> char versions.  Thus there should neither be a copyright issue nor a quality
> or functional issue.  I am writting some small testsuite for the existing code
> that shall reveal issues.  It may be added to the repository if the wide char
> stuff is added to the repository.
>
Well. I'm simply afraid that otherwise we'll (or somebody else who will be around then) will have 
the same discussion sometimes in the future similarly as it it was already discussed almost 20 year 
ago and got forgotten.

Andris