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Re: bug#7948: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>
- Cc: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>, bug-gnulib at gnu dot org, cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, bug-coreutils <bug-coreutils at gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:51:54 -0800
- Subject: Re: bug#7948: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin
- References: <201101310304.42975.bruno@clisp.org> <4D46EA2B.1010307@redhat.com> <201102021229.04623.bruno@clisp.org>
On 02/02/11 03:29, Bruno Haible wrote:
> - Define a type 'wwchar_t' on all platforms, equivalent to uint32_t
> on Windows platforms and to 'wchar_t' otherwise.
As a minor point, would it be OK to call this type
'xchar_t' instead? 'x' is the successor to 'w', after all,
and it can be thought of as an abbreviation for 'eXtended'.
A problem with the 'ww' prefix is that mentally I start thinking
"World Wide ..."
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