wide character support?

wide character support?

[Brent Phillips]

Hello,

I've been trying to internationalize some code, using 2.95.1, but I'm
getting errors because many of the wide character funtions (wprintf,
wsprintf, etc.) are not part of the standard egcs library. Confusing,
because I thought this was part of the standard C library now.

What do I need to do to get the rest of the wide character functions for
egcs on Linux? 

On a related note, do the other Gnu utilities - specifically GDBM - support
wide characters in their API? 

I'd also greatly appreciate it if someone who is familiar with these sorts
of issues could point me to an online or offline resource, or even just
answer a few dumb questions.

thanks in advance

Brent Phillips

Re: wide character support?

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Brent Phillips writes:

 > Hello,
 > I've been trying to internationalize some code, using 2.95.1, but I'm
 > getting errors because many of the wide character funtions (wprintf,
 > wsprintf, etc.) are not part of the standard egcs library. Confusing,
 > because I thought this was part of the standard C library now.

Those are part of the C library.  On a Linux or Hurd system, glibc has
this functionality.  glibc 2.2 is currently in early testing stage and
will have those functions.

 > What do I need to do to get the rest of the wide character functions for
 > egcs on Linux? 

 > On a related note, do the other Gnu utilities - specifically GDBM - support
 > wide characters in their API? 

 > I'd also greatly appreciate it if someone who is familiar with these sorts
 > of issues could point me to an online or offline resource, or even just
 > answer a few dumb questions.

Check out the glibc mailing lists at http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/

Andreas
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