You blinked! See https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/37252698/ https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/ https://mingwpy.github.io/ucrt.html
I suspect it's GPL-compatible the way they're doing it. - Dan On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 8:59 AM Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > > From: Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> > > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 08:11:53 -0700 > > Cc: help-make@gnu.org > > > > > https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/create-a-utf8-c-runtime/351432 > > has some info from 2020 about utf-8 locale support in recent builds of > > windows. > > Yes, I know. But note a caveat: you need to use the Universal C > Runtime to get that in CRT. AFAIK, that could mean legal problems, > and in any case it's available only on the latest versions of Windows. > I don't think MinGW supports that, but maybe I'm mistaken. Also, it > isn't clear which Win32 APIs support that it is not documented, AFAIK. > It is important to know about Win32 APIs because CRT is limited in > what it can do. And after all that, there are bugs and misfeatures as > documented in that issue and elsewhere on the net. > > Even Windows 10 has yet some way to go before ports of Free Software > could use the UTF-8 support built into it. And that's even before we > consider what can one do if one wants their program to run on versions > of Windows older than the latest and the greatest. >
