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Subject: | RE: Re[2]: libgetopt++ and setup and libstdc++ |
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Date: | Wed, 1 May 2002 18:58:32 +1000 |
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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "Pavel Tsekov" <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com> |
Cc: | "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>, |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:53 PM > Zero terminated strings (C style strings) has nothing to do with the > basic_string template class. basic_string can contain any character > including \0. Its much the same as the STL vector. The WCHAR here > specifies the size of storage of a single character... > > I.e. you can have typedef basic_string<struct SomeStrangeChar> > SomeStrangeCharString; Cool. Does it handle MBCS (as opposed to) DBCS ? > RC> Finally, note that Unicde requires 21 bits of storage, so > a 16 bit WCHAR > RC> will still involve multi-byte sequence. > > Quote from "The C++ Programming Language": > > "A wide character - that is, an object of type wchar_t ($4.3) - is > like a char, except that it take up two or more bytes." That's cool, except wchar_t is actually 8 bit on some platforms (shouldn't affect us, we're going off topic here :}) > Btw I read somewhere else that Windows does not support the full > japanese characterset, but only the most used characters. Yeah, I recall something like that too.. hmmm.. Rob
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