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Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11


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According to Linda Walsh on 5/22/2008 1:14 PM:
|     Linux doesn't support double-wide characters in its
| system calls -- it's all in 'glibc'.
|
|     Cygwin doesn't need to support unicode anymore than
| the linux kernel does.  It's whoever built the gcc/glib
| packages that needs to supply that application-level (not
| system-level) datatype.

Please get your terms straight.  glib is something MUCH different than
glibc.  glib is ported to cygwin, glibc is not.  glib is a graphics
library, glibc is an implementation of libc.  Cygwin uses newlib as its
implementation of libc.  And that's why cygwin doesn't support wstring -
because newlib does not have very complete wide character support.

But you are correct that it is the job of libc, and not the kernel, to
provide application-level code that interprets byte sequences as wide
characters.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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