> What do you mean by handling the exception? Fallback to the non wchar_t
yes > solution if an exception is caught? For this to work the choice of > using wchar_t or not must be done at run-time; unfortunately the source > code is really not ready to do that now (lots of #ifdef). wont be possible to avoid any ifdefs by doing something like : try locale stuff (init+sort); catch any_error: do non_locale stuff ? (i'm not much familiar with exceptions, maybe just talking nonsense.) pavel