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Re:  Genx
Joe English scripsit:

> The 'codePoint' typedef may be problematic:
> 
>     // Unicode code points (4-byte int on most systems)
>     typedef wchar_t codePoint;
> 
> The C standard makes no useful guarantees about
> the size or interpretation of 'wchar_t'.  On some
> systems it's identical to plain 'char', and even
> on systems where it's big enough to hold all of
> Unicode, there's no guarantee about what encoding
> the wcs* and *wcs functions use.  wchar_t should
> not be used in programs that are meant to generate 
> portable data and be portable themselves; you just 
> don't know what you're going to get.

I have argued privately that wchar_t is in fact the Right Thing here
despite its variability in size (UTF-32 on Unix platforms, UTF-16 on
Windows), because it makes genx compatible with both standardized and
non-standardized facilities, most especially "..."L strings.  Some
conditional logic will be needed to interpret the input as UTF-16 or
UTF-32, which can be based on sizeof(wchar_t).  Hypothetical platforms
where sizeof(wchar_t) == 1 can be neglected.

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