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- From: jss@lucid.com (Jerry Schwarz)
- Subject: wchar_t (was Re: New C++ type: boole)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.020040.1433@lucid.com>
- Sender: usenet@lucid.com
- Reply-To: jss@lucid.com (Jerry Schwarz)
- Organization: Lucid, Inc.
- References: <DOUGM.92Jul26151240@titan.cs.rice.edu> <1992Jul27.144523.2372@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Jul29.195155.15634@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 02:00:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.195155.15634@microsoft.com>, jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
- |>
- |> A similar, and more important problem [IMHO] occurs because w_char is not
- |> a separate type:
- |>
- |> w_char chSqrt = '\x221A';
- |>
- |> cout << chSqrt;
- |>
- |> doesn't cause the Unicode square root sign to be printed out, but rather
- |> some decimal integer.
- |>
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- At the July meeting, X3J16/WG21 voted to make wchar_t (which is
- the ANSI C spelling) a distinct builtin type.
-
- -- Jerry Schwraz
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-