Re: [MiNT] wide characters

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

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 ?

Peter