Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

[Linda Walsh <cygwin@xxxxxxxxx>]

jadooo wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the valuable information.
>
> I am trying to port my application developed in linux to windows, now as
> it is quiet clear that I could not use cygwin, due to lack of Unicode
> support,
> is there any other alternative to try out my porting activity.
---
	Linux doesn't support double-wide characters in its
system calls -- it's all in 'glibc'.

	Cygwin doesn't need to support unicode anymore than
the linux kernel does.  It's whoever built the gcc/glib
packages that needs to supply that application-level (not
system-level) datatype.

	In the same way, gcc/glib supports 64-bit data types
on 32-bit machines and the glib file I/O transparently supports
64-bit file offsets even on 32-bit machines.

	But, AFAIK, glib doesn't support calling the standard
*nix file-io calls with 'wchar' comprised wstrings.


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