From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
To: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:47:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37fcd2780903030147q7062ee47w7ce524c28a6aa347@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903022135360.20047@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:41:57PM +0100, Peter Krefting wrote:
>
> In most cases, I would most definitely agree with you on calling it that,_
> but when it comes to Unicode support, Windows is one of the least broken__
> OSes (with Symbian being my favourite).
The C Standard requires that the type wchar_t is capable of representing
any character in the current locale. If Windows uses UTF-16 as internal
encoding (so, it can work with symbols outside of the BMP), it means you
cannot have 16-bit wchar_t and be compliant with the C standard...
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-03 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 8:47 [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded Peter Krefting
2009-03-02 10:30 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-03-02 10:46 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-02 10:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-02 12:03 ` Peter Krefting
[not found] ` <a2633edd0903020512u5682e9am203f0faccd0acf6a@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-02 13:57 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-02 14:29 ` Thomas Rast
2009-03-02 20:41 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-03 7:56 ` Lars Noschinski
2009-03-03 11:54 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-03 16:29 ` Lars Noschinski
2009-03-03 20:59 ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-03-03 9:47 ` Dmitry Potapov [this message]
2009-03-03 11:48 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-03 17:13 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-03-04 10:51 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-04 14:18 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-03-02 12:34 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-03-02 13:12 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-02 19:58 ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-03-02 20:52 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-02 21:21 ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-03-03 5:51 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-03 9:43 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-03-03 11:56 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-07 10:38 ` Robin Rosenberg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-03 18:25 John Dlugosz
2009-03-04 10:53 ` Peter Krefting
2009-03-04 19:34 ` John Dlugosz
2009-03-03 19:36 John Dlugosz
2009-03-03 20:39 John Dlugosz
2009-03-03 21:02 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-03-03 21:56 ` John Dlugosz
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