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1150As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symbol nor 1150As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symbol nor
1151does it support it. Instead, it uses its own internal representation of 1151does it support it. Instead, it uses its own internal representation of
1152B<wchar_t>. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards. 1152B<wchar_t>. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards.
1153 1153
1154However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in C<POSIX>, C<ISO-8859-1> and 1154However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in C<POSIX>, C<ISO-8859-1> and
1155C<UTF-8> locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as B<wchar_t>. 1155C<UTF-8> locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as B<wchar_t>).
1156 1156
1157C<__STDC_ISO_10646__> is the only sane way to support multi-language 1157C<__STDC_ISO_10646__> is the only sane way to support multi-language
1158apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized) 1158apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized)
1159representation of B<wchar_t> makes it impossible to convert between 1159representation of B<wchar_t> makes it impossible to convert between
1160B<wchar_t> (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other encoding 1160B<wchar_t> (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other encoding

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