wchar_t on Solaris 8

[L. Nicoara]

Lev,

Solaris having UCS as internal encoding is big news for me. Is this for
all locales or for just some selected few?

8 bytes encoding is even bigger news - I don't remember ever hearing
about a standard that uses 8 bytes for character encoding.

Also you say that Sparc architecture uses LE and Intel BE. Isn't it
viceversa?

Can you point me to some documentation?

Thanks,
Liviu

Lev Assinovsky wrote:
> Solaris Sparc: 4/8 bytes UCS-4LE
> Solaris Intel: 4 bytes UCS-4BE
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>> -----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
>> 
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