Subject: Re: bug#7948: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:51:54 -0800

On 02/02/11 03:29, Bruno Haible wrote:
>   - Define a type 'wwchar_t' on all platforms, equivalent to uint32_t
>     on Windows platforms and to 'wchar_t' otherwise.

As a minor point, would it be OK to call this type
'xchar_t' instead?  'x' is the successor to 'w', after all,
and it can be thought of as an abbreviation for 'eXtended'.

A problem with the 'ww' prefix is that mentally I start thinking
"World Wide ..."