Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc

[Florian Weimer]

  "Brink, Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 16-bit Unicode is being used in existing software. Java is 16-bit
> Unicode.  On AIX and Windows NT, wchar_t has 16 bits.

Ada's Wide_Character has 16 bits as well--it's mandated by the
language, which means that transferring data between Ada and C code is
more complicated when GNU libc is used.

But alas, I think it's too late to change wchar_t in the GNU land.
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