Re: missing types in GType

[Hrvoje Nikšić <hrvoje niksic avl com>]

On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 21:44 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> wchar_t is widely derided on unix platforms. its not useful and should
> apparently be forgotten about if you want to write cross-platform code.
> its not how internationalization is done on most POSIX-ish OS's.

It is not true that wchar_t is derided on Unix/POSIX platforms; after
all, POSIX *defines* internationalization in terms of wchar_t.  It's
just that wide strings defined as arrays of wchar_t, and terminated by
(wchar_t) 0, are not used as extensively as under some other platforms.