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Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.

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Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 3, 2009, 17:13 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
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> Dmitry Potapov:
>
>> The C Standard requires that the type wchar_t is capable of representing
>> any character in the current locale. If Windows uses UTF-16 as internal
>> encoding (so, it can work with symbols outside of the BMP), it means you
>> cannot have 16-bit wchar_t and be compliant with the C standard...
>
> No, that's not quite correct. wchar_t is defined to be "an integer type
> whose range of values can represent distinct codes for all members of the
> largest extended character set specified among the supported locales". Since
> Windows defines all local character sets as Unicode-based, having wchar_t
> defined as Unicode means that it can represent everything.

No, it does not, if you have wchar_t that is only 16-bit wide, because characters outside of the BMP have integer values in Unicode greater than 65535...

Dmitry
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