On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:23:36PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> Angus Leeming wrote:
>
> > Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> We have of course one other options:
> >>
> >> On linux: char_type is wchar_t
> >> docstring is wstring
> >>
> >> On windows: char_type is uint32_t
> >> docstring is basic_string<uint32_t>
> >>
> >> Perhaps that is the easiest solution after all?
> >
> > Works only for MSVC. Will still fail for MinGW and Cygwin.
>
> Exactly. If we decide to not support MinGW and Cygwin anymore then this is
> indeed the easiest solution. IIRC I already sent a patch that does exactly
> this some time ago. If we decide to support MinGW and Cygwin, then it will
> not work, since they don't have any wchar_t, not even a 16 bit one.
I am not sure what you mean but the following
#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
int main()
{
printf("size: %d\n", sizeof(wchar_t));
return 0;
}
prints "size: 2" on both MinGW and Cygwin.
--
Enrico
