On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> Take a look at:
>
> ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/i18N/utf16/ugcc-2.95.2
>
> which proposes UTF-16 support in GCC. I believe they are after getting it
> into gcc and then put it on standard track somewhere.
Well, producing a patch against an ancient release rather than mainline
CVS - the preprocessor has been rewritten since 2.95 - is a waste of time,
and since there is no documentation I can't tell what the patch is
supposed to do.
Systems for string literals in specified character sets have been
discussed on the WG14 reflector, but AFAICT without any working papers yet
even in the WG14 document register, so actually adding such a feature to
GCC would be very premature, but the authors of that patch still ought to
read and follow http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html if they want any GCC
developers to comment meaningfully on it. For now if they want to do
anything actually *useful* on i18n support in GCC they'd be better
dicussing with the preprocessor maintainers what the plans are for fixing
the issues discussed at http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cpplib.html#charset
(taking very careful account of some WG14 reflector discussions and the
differences between C and C++).
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Joseph S. Myers
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