>>>>> "TK" == Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The other merit of wchar_t is user-friendliness. Once a user set
> LANG variable, every softwares work under the specified encoding.
> If not, you have to specify encodings for every software. We don't
> want to have ~/.groffrc, ~/.greprc, ~/.bashrc, ~/.xtermrc, and so on
> so on to specify 'encoding=ISO8859-1' or 'encoding=UTF-8'.
>
> I must admit that I've never worked with wchar_t and friends. I see
> the benefits, though. And with glibc, we have a nice ready-to-use
> library which enormously simplifies the implementation.
TK> Ok, the merit can be achieved by your idea of preprocessor.
TK> Please note that glibc is not a only system which supporte locale.
TK> I suppose that almost commercial UNIX systems support locale.
TK> I suppose BSD variants (Free-, Net-, and Open-) also, though I
TK> don't know them.
FreeBSD locale system don't have UTF-8 encoding. NetBSD and OpenBSD is
same or worse than FreeBSD. So in case of this, iconv() should come from
external libraries(FreeBSD ports has it, converters/iconv). There are
plans to have iconv() internally near future, though.
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