Re: Unicode or not?

Glynn Clements <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:57:25 +0000

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-c-programming
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Krzysztof wrote:

> Does it happen that command line which is passed to program arguments
> is "unicoded"? In other words, when should "main" be defined as
> "main(int argc, wchar_t **argv)"?

Never. Windows supports a wmain() function which uses wchar_t** for
argv, but there is no equivalent on Unix.

Unix doesn't normally use wide strings for communication between
programs or between programs and the OS. Unicode text invariably uses
UTF-8.

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Glynn Clements <[email protected]>