Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curses: build with -std=gnu99

[Samuel Thibault]

Peter Maydell, on Thu 27 Oct 2016 17:52:17 +0100, wrote:
> On 27 October 2016 at 17:36, Samuel Thibault <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Peter Maydell, on Thu 27 Oct 2016 17:14:52 +0100, wrote:
> >> On 27 October 2016 at 16:58, Samuel Thibault <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > Gerd Hoffmann, on Thu 27 Oct 2016 17:55:47 +0200, wrote:
> >> >> /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/ui/curses.c:627:18: error: universal
> >> >> character names are only valid in C++ and C99 [-Werror]
> >> >>              case L'\u23bd':
> >> >
> >> > Another way could be to assume unicode encoding of wchar_t characters
> >> > (which looks very reasonable to me) and just write "case 0x23bd:".
> >>
> >> Does this still work if you're using curses on mingw32?
> >
> > Windows' wchar_t uses unicode encoding, yes (and its limitation to 16bit
> > doesn't pose problem to the values we care about).
> 
> On the other hand apparently FreeBSD and Solaris have a wchar_t
> whose encoding is locale-dependent:
> 
> http://www.thecodingforums.com/threads/wchar_t-is-useless.806149/#post-4398211

UURrgll... So we can't use L'\u23bd' on such systems, it would just not
work either, we have to use iconv to get these right...

Samuel