[boost] Re: std::wstring support in GCC/Cygwin?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-20 11:01:33

"John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:013b01c55d20$6cce6750$75ee0352_at_fuji...
>> What is the story on std::wstring support with GCC/Cygwin? How do you 
>> turn it on?
>
> You don't, cygwin has virtually no wide character support in either C or 
> C++.

Ugh. I was afraid that was the answer. I kept hoping the config_info report 
was wrong somehow.

Seems incredible - this otherwise wonderful package omits something that GCC 
supports out of the box on other platforms.

Thanks for the info.

--Beman