On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Smita Desai wrote:
> Can anyone please help me with converting wide character as defined in
> Solaris and other Unix platforms to Unicode. There is an ANSI C function
> mbtowc and wctomb, but that does not convert to Unicode.
Well, what to use for wchar in ISO/ANSI C is implementation dependent.
Some implementation uses UCS-4(e.g. GNU Libc 2.x) while others might use
UCS-2(e.g X11 R6 seems to use UCS-2 as defined in Unicode 1.1 for
wc*tomb*() and mb*towc*()). Still others can use their own proprietary
ones.
Anyway, if my memory serves me right, iconv() in Solaris 2.6 or later
supports UCS-2 and UCS-4 among others so that you should be able to
convert any (locale-dependent) encodings to UCS-2(native) and
UCS-4(native) using iconv(). I've just taken a look at the manual pages
for iconv(3), iconv(5), iconv_unicode(5) of Solaris 2.6 and confirmed
that it supports UCS-2 and UCS-4.
This may not answer your question directly, but I guess it's of some
help...
Jungshik Shin
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