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- From: larry.jones@sdrc.com (Larry Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Multibyte and wide-character support
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 15:50:12 GMT
- Organization: SDRC Engineering Services
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- In article <4he9gg$m9l@pentagon.io.com>, jamshid@io.com (Jamshid Afshar) writes:
- > Why aren't there wchar_t versions of functions like atoi() strtod()?
-
- There are! X3J11 was breaking ground in this area (I don't know of any
- other language standard that addressed these issues before C did) and
- they weren't sure that they knew enough to specify a complete library,
- nor did they want to delay issuing the standard until they were sure,
- so the original standard contained only the most basic multibyte and
- wide character functions. After the standard was issued, work continued
- (primarily in Japan where they have a lot of experience working with
- multibyte and wide characters) which resulted in Ammendment 1 to the C
- Standard that adds wide character versions of most of the character,
- string, and I/O functions.
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