wchar_t on Solaris 8

[Lev Assinovsky]

Solaris Sparc: 4/8 bytes UCS-4LE
Solaris Intel: 4 bytes UCS-4BE

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Lev Assinovsky
Aelita Software Corporation
O&S Core Division, Programmer
ICQ# 165072909


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Kosnik [mailto:bkoz@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:03 PM
> To: L. Nicoara
> Cc: cxwang_wt@hotmail.com; libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: wchar_t on Solaris 8
> 
> 
> 
> >Also, you may be confused about external vs. internal representation
> >(encoding) of characters. EUC is an external encoding, whereas [for
> >glibc] UCS4 is the internal encoding [for all locales regardless the
> >external encoding].
> 
> See my previous note about linux/glibc. 
> 
> And for Solaris? I thought wchar_t was a 2 byte type with internal
> UCS-2BE encoding?
> 
> I'll put this in the docs since this seems to come up regularly.
> 
> best,
> benjamin
>