Am 16.03.2012 20:55, schrieb H. Peter Anvin: > On 03/06/2012 12:44 AM, walter harms wrote: >>> >> hi, >> >> yep, but i was asking about efi. The basic idea is of cause to map efi_char16_t -> wchar_t >> and back and make this a prototype for every driver that needs a special charset. >> That would make it possible to recycle the wcs* interface of libc. >> IMHO it seems more reasonable than adding one for each (upcoming) type. >> > > Actually libc and the C standard is going the opposite ways, adding new > interfaces for UTF-16 and UTF-32. The wchar_t interface just doesn't > work very well. > I admit i do not have the problem yet and i do not like the idea adding even more types. Oh well may i should be happy that someone is actually thinking about this here and not simply add yet on other hot fix. re, wh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
