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From: Andrej Gelenberg <andrej.gelenberg@udo.edu>
Subject: Re: Unicode or not?
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:04:18 +0100
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To: Krzysztof <kj@limes.com.pl>
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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