Re: [MiNT] wide characters

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

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.