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Re: [newlib-cygwin] cygwin: Set __STDC_ISO_10646__ to Unicode 5.2 value


On Jul 26 12:05, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2017-07-26 04:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > diff --git a/newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h b/newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h
> > index 1f9271b..c9133af 100644
> > --- a/newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h
> > +++ b/newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h
> > @@ -505,10 +505,9 @@ extern "C" {
> >  /* #define _XOPEN_UNIX				    -1 */
> >  #endif /* __XSI_VISIBLE */
> >  
> > -/* The value corresponds to UNICODE version 4.0, which is the version
> > -   supported by XP.  Newlib supports 5.2 (2011) but so far Cygwin needs
> > -   the MS conversions for double-byte charsets. */
> > -#define __STDC_ISO_10646__ 200305L
> > +/* The value corresponds to UNICODE version 5.2, which is the current
> > +   state of newlib's wide char conversion functions. */
> > +#define __STDC_ISO_10646__ 200910L
> 
> I have at least one case (glib) where I had to undefine this:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/1330
> 
> Is this just a bad assumption of the following glib code:
> 
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/glib/gunicollate.c
> 
> or does __STDC_ISO_10646__ really imply a 32-bit wchar_t, in which case
> we shouldn't be defining it at all?

We had a discussion about this a couple of years back, and there's
a bit of disagreement.  Start here:
https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-01/msg00401.html


Corinna

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