Subject: Re: Enhanced locale support for 1.4
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/22/1999 22:43:21
> ...which is ... what, this week?
> Plus, what do you do about all the ports which aren't switching?

That's why I said "perhaps" :-)
I agree that we should not do it at the same time of changing binary
format, as chris and matt and you said.

>  > Unfortunately, if it is completed, "struct __sFILE" (i.e. FILE of
>  > <stdio.h>) will be changed, thus, I suppose that __RENAME hack
>  > doesn't work well.
> 
> How does it have to be changed?

Both ISO-C standard Ammendment.1 and proposed C99 DIS says that if a
user requests, FILE includes the current parse state which represents
multibyte character to wide character translation state,
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soda