UNICODE support on newlib

[Jeff Johnston]

Fernando Ramos wrote:
> I'm trying to compile newlib to implement the wide character functions
> in newlib to deal with 16-bit unicode characters. Is there a configure
> switch I can use for this purpose? Will I need to recompile GCC so I get
> 16-bit wide chars with L"My string" ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fernando Ramos
> Senior Software Engineer
> Hypercom Corp.

Use --enable-newlib-mb when you configure newlib.  If you want iconv, 
there are additional enable options which you can read about inside 
newlib's configure.in.  Wide string literals are part of the ANSI 
standard.

-- Jeff J.