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Re: charset independent strlist.c
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: charset independent strlist.c |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 06:13:42 +1100 |
Masahiro Sakai wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I suggest to use mbsrtowcs() and its family to convert strings
> between multibyte representation and wide character strings.
> They are more portable than iconv(). And we don't need to assume
> multibyte representation and wchar_t representation.
A problem I thought we might have is mbsrtowcs() might not know
what charset the translations will be in. eg: Japanese (as you
know ;-) has EUC and utf8, IIRC. Someone (takashi?)
Is the Right Way to deal with this to set the locale. i.e. to
jp_EUC, or whatever?
Andrew Clausen