Re: Fix u32toutf8 so it encodes values > 0xFFFF correctly.

[Eric Blake]

On 02/22/2012 05:19 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
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> Eric Blake wrote:
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>> Not only can wchar_t can be either signed or unsigned, you also have to
>> worry about platforms where it is only 16 bits, such as cygwin; on the
>> other hand, wint_t is always 32 bits, but you still have the issue that
>> it can be either signed or unsigned.
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> What platform uses unsigned wide ints?  Is that even posix compat?

Yes, it is posix compatible to have wint_t be unsigned.  Not only that,
but both glibc (32-bit wchar_t) and cygwin (16-bit wchar_t) use a 32-bit
unsigned int for wint_t.  Any code that expects WEOF to be less than 0
is broken.

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