Re: Multibyte definition

From: A. Vine (avine@eng.sun.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 15:39:55 EST

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Paul_Corriveau@candle.com wrote:
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> An aside, the C Language Reference distinguishes between multibyte and wide
> characters, the latter used to refer to the Unicode specification.
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Note that Microsoft wide characters and Unix wide characters are completely
different. Microsoft wide characters are 16-bit Unicode (I presume it's UCS-2
in older products, UTF-16 in newer products, but I don't know exactly). Unix
wide characters are 32-bit, and the charset/encoding scheme they contain depends
on the locale you're working in.

Andrea

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