Re: Changes in nl_langinfo() and strftime() API in glibc

[Bruno Haible]

Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> > Not that anyone ever uses the wide code....
> 
> AFAIK it's commonly used on Windows platform.  I guess this is a good
> target if Gnulib is supposed to provide the GNU API on non-GNU platforms.

No. wchar_t[] APIs are too broken for application use in general [1].
On Windows platforms, the only reasonable use of wchar_t arrays you can
make is to interface to the Windows API functions, and *nothing else*.
Gnulib will *not* recommend or favour the use of wchar_t[] APIs in
applicative code.

Bruno

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/manual/html_node/The-wchar_005ft-mess.html