Re: Cygwin 1.7 wide char functions

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 7/20/2009 5:48 AM:
> According to Bruno Haible on 7/18/2009 10:41 AM:
>>>> checking whether mbrtowc has a correct return value... no
>>> This is the first one the Cygwin developers should take care of.
> 
> They are looking into it.

The verdict - the eucJP (and several other) charset is supported only if
you have installed it in your version of Windows (newer versions have it
installed automatically).  On systems where they are installed, the
mbrtowc function works.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00721.html

But this means that if a program is built on a system with the code page,
but then run on a system without, that tests trying to use that locale
will fail - maybe it is just a matter of teaching the tests to skip
instead of crash if it is detected that the code page is lacking.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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