Markus Armbruster, on Fri 28 Oct 2016 08:51:20 +0200, wrote: > Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> writes: > > > Peter Maydell, on Thu 27 Oct 2016 17:52:17 +0100, wrote: > >> http://www.thecodingforums.com/threads/wchar_t-is-useless.806149/#post-4398211 > > > > UURrgll... So we can't use L'\u23bd' on such systems, it would just not > > work either, we have to use iconv to get these right... > > I guess we can if they actually bother to conform to C99. 6.4.3 > Universal character names: > > The universal character name \Unnnnnnnn designates the character > whose eight-digit short identifier (as specified by ISO/IEC 10646) > is nnnnnnnn. Similarly, the universal character name \unnnn > designates the character whose four-digit short identifier is nnnn > (and whose eight-digit short identifier is 0000nnnn). > > Note that it doesn't say here that L'\u23bd' should be equal to 0x23bd.
I know, but as discussed in the thread, that could only work if gcc embeds something like calls to nl_langinfo and iconv to properly convert from the unicode value to the proper wchar_t according to the locale. I wouldn't be surprised that they don't. Samuel
