GNU bug report logs - #7963
multibyte: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:57:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 7948, 7968

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

From: Warren Young <warren <at> etr-usa.com>
To: cygwin <at> cygwin.com, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:46:24 -0700

On 2/2/2011 9:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> If only the one's who decided that wchar_t in Cygwin should have the
> same size as WCHAR_T in the underlying Windows would have thought twice
> about the implications...

Cygwin 1.9?

Or maybe 2.0, if it breaks ABIs?
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 240 days ago.

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