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

From: Tor Lillqvist (tml@iki.fi)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 21:36:42 EST

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    Frank Yung-Fong Tang writes:
    > Also, in gnu's gcc and lib c implementation, wchar_t is defined to be 4
    > bytes and always hold utf-32 regardless which locale you are set
    > to.

    Make that "gcc when using GNU libc". When gcc is built to use some
    other C library it uses that C library's wchar_t. For instance, with
    Microsoft's C library on Win32 (a configuration knows as mingw), it
    uses 16-bit (UCS-2, or is it UTF-16?) wchar_t, just like Microsoft's
    compiler.

    --tml

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