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

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From: Paul Eggert
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:14

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Stephen Baynes <stephen.baynes@soton.sc.philips.com> writes:

> 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.

Quite right.

This is a somewhat controversial point.  I recall that at least one
member of the C Standard committee was surprised to hear about this
property of the standard.  It's conceivable that the next iteration of
the C standard will require ISO 10646 for wchar_t.  (By 2009, runtime
translation tables will be cheap, right?  :-)

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