Re: 3rd-party cross-platform UTF-8 support

[Markus Scherer]

Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
> >     UTF-16 <-> wchar_t*
> 
> Wait.... be careful here. wchar_t is not an encoding. So.. in theory, you cannot 
>convert between UTF-16 and wchar_t. You,
> however, can convert between UTF-16 and wchar_t* ON win32 since microsoft declare 
>UTF-16 as the encoding for wchar_t.
> However, that is not universal true. Different platform can chose the size of 
>wchar_t and the internal representation of
> wchar_t* according to POSIX.

I know. Don't get me started on the usefulness of wchar_t...
We handle this in our convenience function as best as we could figure out.
That's what makes it _convenient_ ;-)

[Granted, it might also not work everywhere, but it is better than nothing.]

markus