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- From: peterw@spaten.sharebase.com (Peter Wisnovsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: Re: POSIX update
- Date: 14 Aug 1992 13:33:06 -0700
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- Submitted-by: peterw@spaten.sharebase.com (Peter Wisnovsky)
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- In article <16ccqfINNrss@ftp.UU.NET> decot@cup.hp.com (Dave Decot) writes:
- >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.
-
- Perhaps I am mixing up my terminology or not expressing myself clearly
- (where is Marlin Fitzwater when you need him?) My knowledge of the
- various standards organizations is somewhat sketchy. However, my
- impression of what the potential problem is that if the standards orgs
- went ahead and used wchar_t as the vehicle for supporting Unicode,
- then existing conformant implementations that define wchar_t to be an
- 8-bit or 32-bit value would be made non-conformant. NT is not
- non-conformant in itself...but the solution it proposes to the storage
- of Unicode data, that is, the fixing of the size of wchar_t to be
- 16=bits wide, would not work with existing conformant systems.
-
- Two proposals were discussed at the Unicode conference wrt XPG. One
- would be to have the standards changed so that wchar_t would be
- defined to be 16-bits wide; the other would be to create a new
- datatype, `unichar'. The sentiment at the conference was to create a
- new datatype.
-
- Peter Wisnovsky
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