Re: [MiNT] wide characters

[p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk]

>---- Original Message ----
>From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>
>To: "Peter Slegg" <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>
>Cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi
>Sent: Tue, Jan 19, 2010, 12:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [MiNT] wide characters
>
>On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 22:21 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:38:02 , p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk wrote:
>> >
>> > I remember a discussion about wide chars a year or 2 ago but I wasn't
>> > really following it.
>> >
>> > I am looking through more of the Highwire code and in the forms textareas
>> > they are handled as WCHAR
>> >
>> > #ifndef WCHAR
>> > typedef unsigned short WCHAR;  /* 16-bit character, for BICS or Unicode */
>> > #define WCHAR WCHAR
>> > #endif
>> >
>> > I'd like to be able to search these arrays for non alpha-num characters,
>> > just for the basic task of Ctrl-Left & Ctrl-Right handling.
>> >
>> > http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libc/String_002fArray-Comparison.
>> > html
>> >
>> > Are the wide string comparisons available on Mint ?
>> > eg  Function: int wcsncmp (const wchar_t *ws1, const wchar_t *ws2, size_t si
>> > ze)
>> >
>> > Will they work with the above unsigned short definition or would HW have to
>> > be
>> > changed to use wchar_t  ?
>> >
>> > I think the two types might be equivalent but I don't know how gcc will reac
>> > t.
>> >
>> > Peter
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> I have added libutf8-devel to my system. This adds headers to
>> /usr/include/utf8
>> 
>> I've added #include <wctype.h> in the code but how do I add
>> this to the include path ?
>
>#include <utf8/wctype.h>
>
>Thanks for the pointer on this library. We should really integrate this
>into mintlib.
>
>Alan.

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I think some work might have been done but I am not sure.

Peter