Hi Lauri, all, While I'd love having this patch applied, I've to agree with Hiltjo
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:57:02 +0200 Lauri Tirkkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could you explain what it is that you don't like about wchar_t? > Probably because wchar_t it's not portable at all, quoting the ISO/IEC 10646:2003 Unicode standard 4.0 [0] > The width of wchar_t is compiler-specific and can be as small as 8 > bits. Consequently, programs that need to be portable across any C or > C++ compiler should not use wchar_t for storing Unicode text. The > wchar_t type is intended for storing compiler-defined wide > characters, which may be Unicode characters in some compilers. I don't know for sure the reasons of Hiltjo, but this one it's quite a good one to refrain from applying it. Maybe you can find an alternative way to deal with it or propose the patch in the wiki (or both)? As I don't have compilers constraint I will surely try and use it, thanks! [0]:https://www.iso.org/standard/39921.html -- Antenore Gatta
