RE: 3rd-party cross-platform UTF-8 support

[Yves Arrouye]

> >     UTF-16 <-> wchar_t*
> 
> Wait.... be careful here. wchar_t is not an encoding. So.. in 
> theory, you cannot convert between UTF-16 and wchar_t. You,
> however, can convert between UTF-16 and wchar_t* ON win32 
> since microsoft declare UTF-16 as the encoding for wchar_t.

And he can also do some between UTF-16 and UTF-32 for glibc-based programs
since UTF-32 is the encoding for wchar_t for such platforms.

The way I read that was UTF-16 <-> UTF-(8*sizeof(wchar_t)). (Please don't
ask what happens when sizeof(wchar_t) is 3 or larger than 4, you know what I
mean :)). I guess the responsibility of this being a meaningful conversion
would be with the caller.

YA

PS: I don't know a way of knowing the encoding of wchar_t programmatically.
Is there one? That'd offer some interesting possibilities..