On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 09:58:01AM +0100, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
> Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> > > > On FreeBSD, wchar_t is not ISO 10646.
> > >
> > > Ouch. So what's it?
> >
> > All bytes belonging to the multibyte char, packed in a single
> > word. This makes the widechar <--> multibyte converter quite fast.
>
> What size is that word ?
> In order to hold all the byte of a maximum size UTF-8 sequence; they
> need an 8 byte word.
Um, 6 if you need characters beyond 16#10FFFF#, 4 if you don't.
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