[cfe-dev] Clang's string type?

Tim Northover via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Aug 23 14:39:52 PDT 2018


Hi Marcus,

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 12:53, Marcus Johnson via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> In order to support wprintf, we'd have to support UTF-16 in the API, which would amount to a massive patch set for pretty much everything.

Similar issues came up earlier this year when people discussed EBCDIC
(yay!) support:
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2018-January/056721.html

The impression I get from that is similar to Eli's suggestion: Clang
likes UTF-8 internally.

Cheers.

Tim.



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