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

[Ulf Zibis]

Hi,

I think there is a kind of similar bug in discussion on GNU:
bug#7960: [PATCH] fmt: fix formatting multibyte text (bug #7372)

-Ulf


Am 02.02.2011 18:51, schrieb Paul Eggert:
> 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 ..."