On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:

> Le nonidi 9 frimaire, an CCXXIV, Morten W. Petersen a écrit :
> > I was looking for a locale that would enable me to putwchar a 32-bit
> > Unicode character to stdout and have things handled correctly,
> > automatically.  Without any re-encoding to UTF-8 and so on.
>
> I do not know what your program is about, but what you are asking seems to
> me like a very bad idea.
>
> You should use putwchar() if you WANT automatic recoding to the current
> locale, transparently and for any locale, as long as the character is
> possible.
>
>
>
Hm.  But how would I go about setting up a locale that is in fact UTF-32?

I guess I need to build locale files that contain translations and so on in
UTF-32, and also need to hack a bit on terminal code and so on to get
that going?

-Morten

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