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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:34:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: v2.x release: features ?
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References: <199904121436 DOT KAA18419 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> from "DJ Delorie" at Apr 12, 99 10:36:11 am
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> 3) I18N
> ISO C/amd 1, wide chars, multibyte strings.  Boring work not
> use widely, the commitees are still fighting for the *right*
> set of chars, UTF ? Unicode ? pfff .. !

I started on wide chars a while back, but other things then grabbed my 
attention. Eventually, if no one else does it, I'll start on it again 
eventually. The first thing that needs to be done is to make wchar_t an 
unsigned long to match the 32-bit length of the UCS-4 Unicode 
character and change wint_t to match. UTF-8 is a good candidate for 
the multibyte encoding since it's in wide use already (its the charset of 
HTML 4 for example) and converting between UCS-4 and UTF-8 is not 
difficult.


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