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List:       glibc-bug
Subject:    Re: stdio w functions
From:       Andreas Jaeger <aj () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-11-03 6:47:37
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>>>>> Igor Shaterin writes:

 > I run Linux and do a lot of Unicode programming using UCS2 as my
 > standard.  After spending some time unsuccessfully trying to find the
 > stdio functions for wide chars (e.g. wprintf, swprintf, vwsprintf,
 > etc.), searching your site revealed that you don't support these
 > functions.  The open group's 1997 Single Unix Specification includes
 > them as part of <stdio.h> and <wchar.h> (see the link below) and I
 > prefer using egcs to other compilers so I'm just curious if you plan to
 > support  them in the future or if there are already solutions (i.e. code
 > I can download from another site) so there is no need for you to
 > implement them, or if you consider these functions unnecessary.

 > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/fwprintf.html

 > If you do consider them unnecessary,  is there a better way to handle
 > Unicode under Linux and other Unices (I already have access to UTF8 <->
 > UCS2 and other Unicode conversion libraries) so that's not a big deal,
 > however, none of the Unicode standards seems to be preferred and thus
 > more easily used at this point.

 > Igor
glibc 2.2 will contain support for wide chars.  But we're still
developing glibc 2.2 and don't have a release date yet.

Andreas
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