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Re: preliminary patch3 for i18n: eliminate calls to wcstombs.
>>> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:55:29 -0400
>>> Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> said:
> Hmm. I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to implement wcstombs using
> WideChartoMultiByte instead.
I have already implemented it. But wcstombs() must be sensitive
to a locale selected by an application according to ISO C and
the Single Unix Specification. As for the inside of Cygwin, the
conversion must be always done in the system default locale. So
we must use WideCharToMultiByte in any case.
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| AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
| HOKURIKU School of Information Science
o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology