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What does 'lew' stand for in 'lew2' or 'lew4'?

I'm seeing the term 'lew2' and 'lew4' being used in reference to character size in certain files. I know that the number represents how many bytes are used to store certain types of characters (maybe wide chars?), but I'm not sure what the 'lew' part stands for. My best guess is 'length of wide'. Can anyone enlighten me?

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Where did you see it? I've never come across that one myself.

 2008-10-16 18:49:08
Using some 3rd party libraries--lew2 was used for Windows, lew4 for *nix.
tsellon  2008-10-16 20:42:55
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My guess would be Little Endian Word 2 Bytes (or 4 Bytes), as opposed to Big Endian.

devio  2008-10-16 18:50:59
I've heard a few different sources hazard this guess.
tsellon  2008-10-22 01:26:25

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