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- From: decot@cup.hp.com (Dave Decot)
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- Subject: Re: POSIX update
- Date: 12 Aug 1992 18:10:39 -0700
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA
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- Submitted-by: decot@cup.hp.com (Dave Decot)
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- peterw@spaten.sharebase.com (Peter Wisnovsky) writes:
- > >Not to mention the reports that Microsoft NT will be POSIX compliant when
- > >it appears.
- >
- > Not really in terms of character set support. My understanding is that
- > they are going to fix wchar_t at 16 bits to store Unicode data, which
- > strictly speaking is non-conformant.
-
- What are you babbling about? POSIX.1 and POSIX.2 say nothing whatsoever
- about wchar_t. ISO C makes no requirement conflicting with using Unicode
- (or any 16 bit codeset where there is an all-zero code available for
- the null wide character) in wchar_t.
-
- What leads you to believe that using Unicode renders a system non-POSIX
- conformant, "strictly" or otherwise?
-
- > I'd love to hear differently, since I envision having to support Unicode
- > some day, but am loath to do it without substantial support from the OS.
-
- What kind of OS support do you envision is required? Generally, applications
- should be written using libraries that are codeset independent anyway.
-
- Dave Decot
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 92
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