Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:36:33 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? Message-ID: <199509181236.WAA23935@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I'd like to add a format specifier '%S' to the list of format specifiers
>accepted by printf. Well, kernel printf, anyway.
I don't want wchar_t's in the kernel.
>I'd also like the wchar_t value to be 16 rather than 32 bits. Other
>than page 0 (Unicode), no other code pages in ISO-10646 have yet been
>allocated.
I think wchar_t's were made 32 bits so that they are the same as rune_t's.
I don't know if this is important.
>This would affect constant ISO 8859-1 strings using the 'L' quailfier;
>for example:
>main()
>{
> printf( "%S\n", L"Hello World");
>}
How are you supposed to print such strings in ANSI C?
Bruce
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