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

[Peter Maydell]

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

thanks
-- PMM