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Re: [Pnet-developers] [bugs #9266] German umlauts and german sz are not
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Marc Haisenko |
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Re: [Pnet-developers] [bugs #9266] German umlauts and german sz are not displayed |
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Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:57:23 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:38, Rhys Weatherley wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 December 2004 03:03 am, Marc Haisenko wrote:
> > The patch converts strings into wide char strings (32 bit characters)
> > using mbsrtowcs, which seems to be part of the C89 and UNIX98 / Single
> > UNIX Specifications and thus should be avaible on all Unices. A quick
> > google says it is also avaible on Mac OS X (being a BSD) and Windows /
> > Visual Studio 6, so this should be pretty portable.
>
> There are some platforms that don't have the re-entrant version of that
> function. I suggest that you add a test to configure.in to check for the
> re-entrant and non re-entrant versions, and then #ifdef for the one that is
> most appropriate. You may also want to handle the case where there is no
> mbstowcs at all, and use a simple Latin1 conversion. The file
> "pnet/support/ansi.c" should help show you how to do this.
Am currently doing this... it will be in the patch that I'll submit to the
patch tracker.
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Marc Haisenko
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Webport IT-Services GmbH
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