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Re: UTF16 and GCC
Followup to: <87u1zmuvkq.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> kaih@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kai Henningsen) writes:
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> > * Do we need a "native" wide char encoding, too (mostly for Win32 where
> > it's UTF-16, but possibly also some Asian thing)?
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> A single 'char' encoded in UTF-16? This sounds horrible.
>
UTF-16 is horrible, period, but I think he's talking about wchar_t.
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