Re: Transliteration for use in UTF-8 locales

[Bruno Haible]

Robert Brady writes:

> How does it implement the following :
> 
>   wchar_t *foo = "\u00A0";
> 
>   int main() {
>     setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
>     wprintf(foo);
>   }

As equivalent of

  int main() {
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
    printf("\xA0");
  }

Both of these programs will only work in particular locales
(ISO-8859-1 or so).

To print messages that are correct in all languages, one needs
gettext().

To print particular Unicode-characters (like no-break space) correctly
in all locales, one needs either __STDC_ISO_10646__ or an iconv()
based conversion.

Bruno
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