Re: Wide character support enabling

On Friday 17 February 2006 03:09 pm, Raymond Martin wrote:
> I have read that more recent implementations of wchar_t can easily map to unicode
> and that the regular C string functions work with multi-byte characters now. Will
> have to do some more experimenting on this.

Not so simple.

On Linux, the wchar_t type uses unicode encoding on 32 bits
and does not depend on the locale. But this is not the 
case under Solaris. On Windows, the wchar_t has only 16 bits. 
Therefore unicode characters beyond 64K are coded on two words.

- L.


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