From: Noah Levitt (nlevitt@columbia.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 13:33:21 EST
As specified in C99 (and maybe earlier), if the macro
__STDC_ISO_10646__ is defined, then wchar_t values are ucs4.
Otherwise, wchar_t is an opaque type and you can't be sure
what it is.
Noah
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:13:58 -0800, Rick Cameron wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> This may be an FAQ, but I couldn't find the answer on unicode.org.
>
> It seems that most flavours of unix define wchar_t to be 4 bytes. If the
> locale is set to be Unicode, what's in a wchar_t string? Is it UTF-32, or
> UTF-16 with the code units zero-extended to 4 bytes?
>
> Cheers
>
> - rick cameron
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