> > Why doesn't wchar_t play nice with Unicode?
>
> It does, if your C implementation defines the macro name
> __STDC_ISO_10646__ (see the C standard for additional information).
No. It doesn't regardless of how the C99 macro is set. AFAICT you cannot
convert from wchar_t to an arbitrary encoding without going through a
7 or 8 bit locale dependant encoding such as UTF-8 or IS0-8859-1. For
example, if I have a lot of UCS-2 code and want to use wchar_t functions
like wprintf I must first convert the string to UTF-8 using iconv and
then again to wchar_t * with mbstowcs.
Mike
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