On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:09:59PM +0000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Tue, 05 Sep 2000 13:03:21 +0100, Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
>
> > > I am aware that wchar_t needs not to be Unicode but don't know what
> > > else can I do than to provide functions usable only in cases where
> > > wchar_t is Unicode.
> >
> > If wchar_t is Unicode, then the C compiler will have the macro
> >
> > __STDC_ISO_10646__ An integer constant of the form yyyymmL
>
> On glibc-2.1.3 wchar_t is Unicode but the macro is not defined.
> Moreover, if it's not Unicode then I see no good way to sensibly
> convert between its encoding and Unicode anyway.
Well, my understanding is that the new glibc does not run Unicode
but UCS-4. Unicode is inherently 16 bit - I hope they someday
would step into the 32 bit world, but have seen no signs of it.
Still, __STDC_ISO_10646 would be nice to have there.
Kind regards
keld
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