Re: Universal Character Names

fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
22 Oct 1998 01:59:38 -0400

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From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.std.c
Followup-To: comp.std.c
Date: 22 Oct 1998 01:59:38 -0400
Organization: Computer Science, The University of Melbourne
References: 98-10-068 98-10-080 98-10-103
Keywords: C, i18n

"Dr Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz> writes:


>Remember, there are EIGHT "translation phases" in C9x:
...
>6. Strings are pasted (narrow strings with narrow strings, wide
> strings with wide strings). The effect of "x" L"y" and
> L"x" "y" is not defined, which is a pity, because that was
> a very nasty problem that they should have fixed.


I'm not 100% certain, but I believe that they have indeed fixed
that problem -- for concatenation of a wide string and a narrow
string, the narrow string is first "promoted" to wide, so the
result is a wide string.


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Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>
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