[cffi-devel] A question about C and Unicode

[Luís Oliveira]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:53 PM, nitralime <nitralime at googlemail.com> wrote:
> +------>-| typedef wchar_t ZAB_CHAR; |
> | | typedef wchar_t ZAB_UC; |

> | Unicode |------+------>-| typedef char16_t ZAB_CHAR; |
> +---------+ | | typedef char16_t ZAB_UC; |

> +------>-| typedef unsigned short ZAB_CHAR; |
> | typedef unsigned short ZAB_UC; |

> The question is now: Is it correct (resp. safe)
> to defctype ZAB_UC just as :uint16 and interpret
> it as a UFT-16 code point (with an appropriate endiannness)?

Maybe. Which typedef applies? This might be a job for cffi-grovel.


> How can the types like wchar_t and char_16_t be defined (resp. used) in
> CFFI?

I'm not sure. You'll have to figure out whether those types are
equivalent to (un)signed short on your platform. Again, cffi-grovel
might help.

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Luís Oliveira
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