Re: lib/48427: libedit shouldn't require ISO 10646

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/48427; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: lib/48427: libedit shouldn't require ISO 10646
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 01:13:34 +0100

 On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 06:00:01PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 >  You may use any of the encodings you list above for multibyte character
 >  sequences, but you will always get full 32bit unicode for wchar_t.
 >  At least on NetBSD.
 
 No, you won't necessarily get that. That's why we don't set the macro
 either. The internal encoding of wchar_t for a given locale is exactly
 that -- an encoding detail. We do provide a few basic promises, but
 that's about it.
 
 Joerg