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Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc

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Subject: Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc
From: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08 Aug 2000 19:45:00 +0200
In-reply-to: "Brink, Ulrich"'s message of "Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:28:53 +0200"
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  "Brink, Ulrich" <ulrich.brink@xxxxxxx> writes:

> 16-bit Unicode is being used in existing software. Java is 16-bit
> Unicode.  On AIX and Windows NT, wchar_t has 16 bits.

Ada's Wide_Character has 16 bits as well--it's mandated by the
language, which means that transferring data between Ada and C code is
more complicated when GNU libc is used.

But alas, I think it's too late to change wchar_t in the GNU land.
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