Hi Paul, > > - Define a type 'wwchar_t' on all platforms, equivalent to uint32_t > > on Windows platforms and to 'wchar_t' otherwise. > > As a minor point, would it be OK to call this type > 'xchar_t' instead? 'x' is the successor to 'w', after all, > and it can be thought of as an abbreviation for 'eXtended'.
'wwchar_t' means "wide wide character". In fact it's not really an "extended" character or "complex character". It's just what POSIX calls a 'wchar_t'. I like the analogy between strtol and strtoll. In the beginning, people thought a 'long int' would be enough for everything. Then they discovered a 'long long int' is needed. The same story repeats itself here with the "wide characters" which turn out to be not wide enough, and "wide wide characters" are needed. > A problem with the 'ww' prefix is that mentally I start thinking > "World Wide ..." Indeed this meaning can come to mind, but I think it's not dangerous since the term "world wide" has no meaning in a programming language. Bruno -- In memoriam Carl Friedrich Goerdeler <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Goerdeler> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
