Re: msys-1.18 with basic unicode support

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Ralph wrote:
> Using kbless patchset from msysgit and a whole slew of work i managed to
> make a version that supports multibyte
> and a basic set of unicode functions.
>

Please consider using mingw-users to communicate instead of mingw-msys.

> It took quite some work because he was missing a few exports in
> cygwin.din and the wrappers for the w32api unicode functions where
> impossible to compile.
>
> I also added strtoll and strtoull besides stdint and inttypes to the build.
>
> i have tested it against bash zsh and libiconv and they all work and
> report both multibyte an unicode functionality.
>
> I can upload a patch or the modified code for you to try out.

Add the patchset to the Issues ticket system at
https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/ for consideration.  Please
consider a proper ChangeLog entry giving kbless the glory he deserves.

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