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   From: pete@versatilecoding.com   
      
   On 2011-11-14 17:44:42 +0000, Goran said:   
      
   > On Nov 13, 6:05 pm, Arijit  wrote:   
   >> Hi   
   >>   
   >> I am writing a program which accepts unicode arguments on the command   
   >> line. However there does not seem to be any way to access wide   
   >> character command line arguments in standard c++. No support for int   
   >> main(int argc, wchar_t **argv). Is there any way I can access an   
   >> unicode command line in standard c++ ?   
   >   
   > AFAIK, "wide" is a red herring here. In today's world, we need --   
   > some-- Unicode encoding. "wide" ain't any of that. I personally   
   > believe C++ standard should change to say that "wide" does mean   
   > Unicode (on a target platform), meaning e.g. UTF-8 on (datum being an   
   > octet) Unix and UTF-16LE (datum being two octets) on Windows, and if   
   > someone wants e.g. UTF-32, well, let them.   
   >   
   > Current situation on two major OS-es is that you'd use char* and   
   > presume UTF-8 on Unices, and you'd use wchar_t and presume UTF-16 on   
   > Windows.   
   >   
      
   C++11 has char16_t and char32_t.   
      
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