Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:52:20 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:

> If we're supporting windows, we should reconfigure
> gcc to use 16-bit wide characters.  However, you'll have to rebuild
> *all* of libc to support them properly (after fixing the wchar type in
> the system headers).

What prevents us from releasing v2.03 with this change?

Wide character aren't really supported by the library, the few
functions that pay attention to wchar are just noops, as far as I can
see.