Hi Frank,
Sorry to be in disagreement on a couple of points. On Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:54 PM, Frank Yung-Fong Tang wrote: > Antoine Leca wrote on 3/2/2004, 5:50 AM: > > > Rick Cameron asked: > > > > > If the locale is set to be Unicode, > > > > That part is highly suspect. > > Since you write that, you already know the wchar_t encoding > > (as well as char one) depends on the locale setting. > > no, not true. What is not true? > the wchar_t is depend on the COMPILER Yes > and C LIB implementation, Yes. > not depend on the locale setting. Yes it does. That is, the wchar_t encoding CAN change at run time if you call setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ...) I know this is not current behavour (fortunately), but it does happen with some libc. And regarding the standard, this IS allowed behaviour. > For example, wchar_t in MS Windows is defined by Microsoft In this particular example, yes, wchar_t encoding never changes (and stays 16-bit UCS-2). But there are other compilers and other environments in the world. > But again, that is defined by who wrote gcc and gnu version of lib c. This I agree with. Particularly the latter... > It is NOT locale dependent (unless a particular c lib implementaion > define so) Here I am in agreement! About the rest, this is factually correct. I am in disagreement with the ideas, but I already exposed mine, so no need to repeat it. Antoine
