Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 11:19:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
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On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:

> > 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.
> > 
> 
> For gcc I think it would be enough to add following definitions in 
> gcc/config/i386/djgpp.h (according to gcc info files, I haven't tested it 
> though):
> 
> #define WCHAR_UNSIGNED 1
> #define WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE 16
> #define WCHAR_TYPE "short unsigned int"

DJ, is it okay to change the typedef for wchar_t in the CVS tree?  Then 
we could arrange for GCC configured like above available when v2.03 is 
released, and close this problem.