Speed difference in Gnus

[Glynn Clements]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben at xemacs.org> writes:
> 
>     Ben> actually, it doesn't look as bad as i thought.  there is such
>     Ben> a thing as XwcDrawImageString, which is a standard part of x
>     Ben> windows and which accepts a Unicode string as well as an
>     Ben> XFontSet
> 
> Well, actually it accepts wide characters.  I have no idea what it
> does with them, though, and I believe the standard is "implementation
> dependent".  I'm pretty sure on SunOS with JLE 4.1.3 it was documented
> to take constant-width EUC-JP.

The Xlib documentation says "in the form supported by the host C
language environment", which I take to mean "whatever the OS normally
uses for wchar_t".

If __STDC_ISO_10646__ is defined, then wchar_t is ISO-10646. Other
than that, I'm not aware of any standard mechanism to determine the
system's encoding of wide characters.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>