GNU bug report logs - #7948
multibyte: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin

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Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, cygwin <cygwin <at> cygwin.com>,
	bug-coreutils <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bug#7948: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin
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 ..."

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