Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Novice questions on `wchar_t' Message-ID: <1991Feb20.215452.7629@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 21:54:52 GMT In article 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