Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

[noboru.yamamoto@kek.jp (Noboru Yamamoto)]

In Message-Id: <330A3203.102F11D5@lanl.gov>, Jeff wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>The ANSI C standard includes the type "wchar_t" which is
>a character type intended to be large enough to hold the
>extended character sets which may be required by local
>convention. EPICS is now using C type "char" (an 8 bit
>character) to store process variable name character strings.
>Is this perceived as a potential limitation at any of the
>EPICS sites? Should we consider support for extended character
>sets in future versions of EPICS?
>
>Jeff
>
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It would be very helpful if we can use multibyte characters in DESC field
and string type VAL field. So that we can use Japanese to show status of devices
and so on.

In my opinion, use of multibye character in process variable name is NOT
essential in EPICS application.

Noboru Yamamoto
KEKB Accelerator Control Group
KEK, JAPAN
Noboru Yamamoto
KEKB Accelerator Control Group
KEK, JAPAN
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