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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: 15 Aug 2000 00:09:08 -0700
Cc: "Nuesser, Wilhelm" <wilhelm.nuesser@xxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: "Nuesser, Wilhelm"'s message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:56:25 +0200"
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"Nuesser, Wilhelm" <wilhelm.nuesser@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Sorry for resending and perhaps bothering you again, but 
> I´m afraid there has been a mail problem ;-)

I don't know how clear I have to get: there will be no UTF-16 or UCS-2
support besides the already available conversion functions and the
possibility to define a UCS2 locale.  These encodings are always the
wrong choice for system libraries.

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