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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