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Re: Wide character support for GCC?


On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:57:54PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote:
>What's the story on wide character support for GCC? Are wchar_t, 
>std::wstring, etc., still not supported by cygwin?

Not fully, no.

>If not, what would it take to get wide character support working?  Is
>there a lot of work involved?  Is it something an outside developer
>could contribute?

What's an "outside developer"?  We're all doing this in our spare time.

The stub implementation for wide character support is in the newlib library.
If you are interested in adding better support you should check out the
functions there.  Questions should go to the newlib mailing list newlib
at sourceware dot org .

cgf

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