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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:21:20 +0000
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Subject: Re: Wide string functions available
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> Ick.  Of course, we could just say that building STL requires you
> install the wide lib first.
> 

The bad part is SGI's STL 3.11 includes the wide string headers, 
but then doesn't use any of the functions that are supposed to be 
there. I grep'ed their distribution for anything with wcs* and 
couldn't find anything. 

You could point them to a site I found today which has a ANSI 
wide- and multibyte- string library for DJGPP: 
http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~jack/beta/index.html
I haven't tested it since I just found it, but it would seem like the 
work has already been done.

You also tell them to remove the reference since SGI's STL makes 
no use of it.

But then again, that presumes people actually read the 
instructions.

And while I'm at it...
The final committee draft of C9X I occasionally make reference to 
is available from:
http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/


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