On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:33:50AM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote: > Hi, > > When should one use wchar and when should one use char. I have heard > lot about UNICODE. But what is the real need of wchar_t type ? > > Actually, I have many read many files through a C program and it has > Japanese text as well. What is advisable to use. Should it be fgetws > or fgets, will also do. When should one use fgetws or fgets and > reason. Please let me know, if someome can explain in simple terms or > any document on this would be helpful. > > Moreover, windows has wsystem(), wstat(),etc, which LINUX does not > have, any reasons for that. > > Please let me know, if anyone has any idea.
You might want to read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ It pretty much explains it all. HTH, Matijs -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or cracks of not more than two cubic vims. -- Robert Sheckley, Untouched by Human Hands
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