Re: Anybody working on ISO/IEC 15435 (i18n.h)?

[Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>]

Kai Henningsen writes:

> Which reminds me I probably want to have some internal type in place of  
> wchar_t, in case someone wants to port to a compiler where wchar_t isn't  
> large enough to hold 31 bits. (I remember seeing sizeof(wchar_t)==2 once.)

On some systems you even have sizeof(wchar_t)==1. The people who designed
this decided that they didn't want internationalized programs on their
platform. Too bad for them.

I don't think it's worth doing special hacks for such stupidly designed
systems. Simply use 'wchar_t' as it is. In the short term, people on these
platforms can add #include <libutf8.h> to the source files, which redefines
the wchar_t type to something sane. In the long term, platforms with non-
Unicode wchar_t will disappear.

Bruno
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