Re: Gmake UTF-8 Support?

[Dan Kegel]

You blinked!  See
https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/37252698/
https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/
https://mingwpy.github.io/ucrt.html

I suspect it's GPL-compatible the way they're doing it.
- Dan



On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 8:59 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
> > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 08:11:53 -0700
> > Cc: help-make@gnu.org
> >
> >
> https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/create-a-utf8-c-runtime/351432
> > has some info from 2020 about utf-8 locale support in recent builds of
> > windows.
>
> Yes, I know.  But note a caveat: you need to use the Universal C
> Runtime to get that in CRT.  AFAIK, that could mean legal problems,
> and in any case it's available only on the latest versions of Windows.
> I don't think MinGW supports that, but maybe I'm mistaken.  Also, it
> isn't clear which Win32 APIs support that it is not documented, AFAIK.
> It is important to know about Win32 APIs because CRT is limited in
> what it can do.  And after all that, there are bugs and misfeatures as
> documented in that issue and elsewhere on the net.
>
> Even Windows 10 has yet some way to go before ports of Free Software
> could use the UTF-8 support built into it.  And that's even before we
> consider what can one do if one wants their program to run on versions
> of Windows older than the latest and the greatest.
>