Re: Is Unicode character set a problem when compiling GTK sources?

[John Emmas <john creativepost co uk>]

On 17/02/2015 18:36, codekiddy wrote:
> (even Fan's projects which I'm using) which were
> set to Multibyte character set are now set to *unicode character set*
>
> Can you tell what consequnces could that have?
> I'm starting to think it would be better to re-compile everything with 
> Multibyte instead because I have bad problems with GTK+ on run-time, 
> there should be reason why those projects found in official sources 
> are all set to Multibyte??

Hi there,

As someone else who builds a lot of GTK related stuff with MSVC, my 
experience has been that the most commonly used Unicode format (for GTK+ 
based projects) tends to be UTF-8.  UTF-8 can only be represented easily 
when you select the multibyte character set. Windows Unicode uses 
precisely 2 bytes to represent each character. But UTF-8 can use 
anywhere between 1 byte and 4 bytes (in fact, I think the early 
implementations could use up to 6 bytes!)  It probably makes things a 
lot easier too for Glib::ustring.

Hope that explains it.

John