Re: Wide chars/strings, docs anywhere?

[Dick Porter <dick acm org>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:14:17PM +0200, Michael Rumpf wrote:
> Roland Mas wrote:
> > 
> > Michael Rumpf (2000-08-25 19:09:03 +0200) :
> > 
> > > For the CORBA wide string support you need definitely to look into
> > > the CORBA spec 2.2(or 2.3).  ORBit CVS has a docs subdirectory. If
> > > you don't find it there what you are looking for .... , well then
> > > only the Source remains.  The http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net
> > > has links to the current specs.
> > 
> >   Thanks, I'll use the specs (and the Source).  Are there any special
> > quirks, catch-22's, tricks or stuff like that that I should be aware
> > of (like, byte order / enddianness), or does ORBit do everything for
> > me?
> 
> Elliot, Dick, ... ?
>  
> I've seen that the wstring and wchar constants don't work so 
> far (they don't get the L prefix for "" or '' literals), but that is 
> something I'm currently working on. For the internals of the 
> ORB I simply don't know because I'm also quite new to the project ;-)
> 

I don't think anyone has been motivated enough yet to add wide char support.
Probably because that involves all sorts of grottiness in IOP to do charset
conversions.

- Dick