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Re: cygwin builds and unicode support

From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:31:05 +0000
Subject: Re: cygwin builds and unicode support
References: <b0ddfae81003211106sd7031f4lf5a2f276ffa003be@mail.gmail.com>

On 21/03/2010 18:06, mike marchywka wrote:
> I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into
> all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- 

  The most likely cause of the problem is that cygwin uses 16-bit wide chars,
where linux has 32-bit ones.  How you solve that is going to depend on exactly
how deeply any assumptions about bit-ness of wchar_t is implicit in the webkit
code, if that does indeed turn out to be the case.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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