Walter Bright: >The wchar and dchar stem from the popular WORD and DWORD sizes on the x86 >platforms. wchar_t is of course "wide character" for C, and is often used for >UTF-16 at least on Windows platforms. Confusingly, wchar_t on Linux is 32 >bits.<
>From such comments of yours, and from the lack of interest from Don, Nick and >others, I guess that idea of changing char names is closed, even if I don't >like those names. I will update the bugzilla with this. The proposal of renaming the byte => sbyte is not closed/resolved yet. It's a little more important, because the current situation is bug-prone. Bye, bearophile
