Re: Using Perl's cc

[Gavin Smith]

On 11 July 2015 at 14:14, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> There's one other issue with the MS-Windows support: it's wchar_t is a
> UTF-16 encoding of Unicode codepoints.  So characters outside of the
> BMP yield 2 wchar_t values, not 1.  The code in xspara.c assumes
> wchar_t is a scalar type that is wide enough to support any Unicode
> codepoint, which is false for Windows.
>
> To resolve this, we could use a data type other than wchar_t, and
> convert the UTF-16 encoding into a Unicode codepoint with a trivial
> function.  Is it OK to make that change?

I believe wint_t is guaranteed to be at least 32 bits wide.