From: Andrej Gelenberg <andrej.gelenberg@udo.edu>
To: Krzysztof <kj@limes.com.pl>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unicode or not?
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:04:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F54C7E2.3000307@udo.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jj2b8n$uka$1@dough.gmane.org>
HI,
it's always char **, which encoding the arguments has, depends on system
locale (mostly LANG environment variable), but it must be always some
sort of multibyte encoding at most (like utf8). UCS 2 (UTF-16) would
break many existing programs.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1664476/is-it-possible-to-use-a-unicode-argv
and here, how to covert between utf8 and wchar:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuni/index.html
On 03/05/2012 01:23 PM, Krzysztof wrote:
> Does it happen that command line which is passed to program arguments is
> "unicoded"? In other words, when should "main" be defined as "main(int
> argc, wchar_t **argv)"?
>
Regards,
Andrej Gelenberg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-05 12:23 Unicode or not? Krzysztof
2012-03-05 14:04 ` Andrej Gelenberg [this message]
2012-03-05 20:19 ` Krzysztof
2012-03-05 20:52 ` Andrej Gelenberg
2012-03-05 19:57 ` Glynn Clements
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