Re: EUC<->Unicode (Curses woes on Solaris)

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From: Stephen Baynes
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:04

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Paul Gorodyansky wrote:
> 
> Paul Gorodyansky wrote:
> >...
> > on a Web page (cannot find URL now) of Sun documentation where they said
> > that their C run-time library's
> >   wchar
> > is NOT Unicode, it's Sun's proprietary implementation.
> 
> By the way, can anybody answer how people write Unicode-enabled
> programs in C/C++ under Solaris if wchar there is not Unicode?
> 
> Solaris 8 claims to fully support Unicode, I cna even choose UTF-8
> as a locale but what does it really means if C/C++ do NOT support
> Unicode there???

I don't know - but I guess that if you set UTF-8 as your locales
character set - then it will correctly convert to / from UTF-8 as
a multi byte character set to Sun's (not unicode) wchar encoding.

Note also that the C standard allows the encoding of wide characters
to be locale specific. So in a UTF-8 locale it could be UNICODE and
in a Japanise locale it could be something completely different.

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