RE: What's in a wchar_t string on unix?

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 10:00:50 EST

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Rick,

>For each of the popular unices (Solaris,
>HP-UX, AIX, and - if possible - linux),
>can anyone answer the following question:

>Assuming that the locale is set to Unicode,
>what is in a wchar_t string? Is it UTF-32
>or pseudo-UTF-16 (i.e. UTF-16 code units,
>zero-extended to 32 bits)?

In the case of Solaris it is not Unicode so be careful. There elected to
implement a nun-Unicode wide character set.

Carl

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