Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:52:43 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Rainer Schnitker wrote:

> No, it's a compiler bug. Djgpp uses 4 bytes for every character in the
> string.
> 
> 
> C file:
>   unsigned short test[] = L"Hello world\n";
> 
> djgpp output:
>         .ascii "H\0\0\0e\0\0\0l\0\0\0l\0\0\0o\0\0\0
> \0\0\0w\0\0\0o\0\0\0r\0\0\0l\0\0\0d\0\0\0\12\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"
> 
> emx/mingw32/cygnus output:
>         .ascii "H\0e\0l\0l\0o\0 \0w\0o\0r\0l\0d\0\12\0\0\0"

If other versions of GCC do the right thing, it is probably a
configuration problem.

Andris, am I right that DJGPP is configured to produce 4 bytes for
multibyte characters, and if so, how difficult is it to configure
this aspect of DJGPP like Mingw and Cygwin?