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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: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08 Aug 2000 11:13:36 -0700
In-reply-to: Florian Weimer's message of "08 Aug 2000 19:45:00 +0200"
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Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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

"Too late"?  If *never* would happen.  Every sane system has wchar_t a
32bit type.  Even the AIX people realized this and will switch to a
32bit type once they can figure out how to handle the compatiblity
problem.

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