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Re: [PATCH] mbrtowc: port better to narrow-wchar_t platforms
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [PATCH] mbrtowc: port better to narrow-wchar_t platforms |
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Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:19:44 +0100 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> wchar_t is too narrow to represent all the Unicode characters,
> consider a byte sequence for an out-of-wchar_t-range character to
> be an encoding error.
Thanks. I had not thought about 16-bit wchar_t when writing this code.
For supporting full Unicode on AIX and Windows platform, we'll need
mbrtoc32() instead of mbrtowc(). It's on my TODO list to add this support
to gnulib.
Bruno