Re: Novice questions on `wchar_t'

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 21:54

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In article <VICTOR.91Feb20113032@gran-paradiso.tivoli.com> victor@tivoli.com writes:
>How well supported is wchar_t?  What would happen to me if I started writing
>all my programs using wchar_t instead of good ole char (is there wchar-ized
>libc, eg.)?  How does it fit in with SysV.4 and XPG?

Uh, you need to look really hard at ANSI C before you start assuming that
things like a "wchar-ized libc" are going to be provided.  It's not that
simple.  Plain old "char" is still the type of choice for a lot of things.
-- 
"Read the OSI protocol specifications?  | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
I can't even *lift* them!"              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Novice questions on `wchar_t'
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