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- From: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Subject: Handling ISO 10646 UCS in C
- Message-ID: <Bt1792.48L@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:34:13 GMT
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- Are there any proposals about future extensions to Standard C that will
- allow the programmer to use ISO 10646/Unicode strings as easily as
- char []?
-
- Will wchar_t be fixed to UCS-2 or will the standard commitees introduce two
- new char types e.g.
-
- ucs2_t for the 16-bit ISO 10646 BMP (also known as Unicode)
- ucs4_t for the full 32-bit ISO 10646 code
-
- together with new string constant notations for both of them and a lot
- of new library functions for arrays of these new types? (I'd prefer
- introducing two new types a lot!)
-
- Will C programs be allowed to be UCS-2 files in addition to ASCII files
- which would make entering Unicode characters in string constants and
- comments as easy as ASCII characters today?
-
- What will be the new equivalent of \0? \x0000 or \ffff or another special
- character?
-
- Markus
-
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