Re: Unicode and C++

[Adrian Havill <havill turbolinux co jp>]

Nathan Myers wrote:

> There is no problem with wide character string literals in C or C++,
> and hasn't been for a very long time.  Simply prefix with a letter 'L'.
>
>   wchar_t hello = L"hello, world";

Too bad this doesn't actually work yet with the current glibc/gcc for
non-trivial examples, such as Japanese/Chinese, etc. Plus, until glibc 2.2
comes out, the wide character C support functions (of what exists) are also
busted for non-trivial languages.

Which brings up another point for making wide character versions of the GTK
API... once glibc 2.2 is commonplace, it would be a waste to have that
working wide character functionality and then be discouraged from using it
because you'd have to convert all your internal strings from wide form to
UTF-8 for every GTK call.