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

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Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Mar 4, 2009, 10:51 UTC
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Dmitry Potapov:
> 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...

UTF-16 allows you to reference all of Unicode (i.e up to U+10FFFF) using surrogate pairs. That means that not all characters can be represented as a single wchar_t, that is true. The problem with changing wchar_t is that it was defined to use 16-bit values at a time where Unicode was defined to use 16-bit code points (but they soon figured out that was not enough).

Anyway, this is getting off-topic. Please feel free reply in private.
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  1. Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.Peter Krefting, Mar 2, 2009
  2. Johannes SixtMar 2, 2009
  3. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 2, 2009
  5. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  6. Johannes SixtMar 2, 2009
  7. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  8. Robin RosenbergMar 2, 2009
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  11. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
  12. Dmitry PotapovMar 3, 2009
  13. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
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  23. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
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  25. Peter KreftingMar 4, 2009
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