[RFC] moneypunct<wchar_t>: mbsrtowcs or just btowc?

[Nathan Myers]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:01:47PM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Paolo Carlini wrote:
> 
> >>What makes you think otherwise? 
> >
> >perhaps, a little too terse info in the C standard and in the
> >glibc docs (that just talk about char*)
> 
> In particular, in 7.11.2.1, p3, "the members of the structure with type
> char* are pointers to strings". I find this talking about "strings"
> instead of "multi byte sequences" really misleading.
> 
> While we are at it, the description of int_curr_symbol is quite complex...
> 
> But we are dealing with it exactly in the same way of currency_symbol!
> 
> For the C++ library purposes, should we actually discard the 4th char??

It seems as if the int_currency_symbol can't be a multibyte string,
because all the characters are in the basic source character set.
The fourth character (if present) is a space, right?

Nathan Myers
ncm-nospam@cantrip.org