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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: "Unicode"
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"Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> Most (all?) g++ distros for Windows default to UTF-8 as the C++ 
> execution character set. So ideally one could just use the narrow string 
> directly for g++, i.e., a little compiler dependency, that's not a large 
> cost. Unfortunately in Windows the default g++ standard library 
> implementations expect Windows ANSI, i.e. incompatible with the 
> compiler's C++ execution character set, and there's no way to change the 
> locale to an UTF-8 one.

"ANSI" is an incorrect name for the Windows-1252 8-bit character set
(and related code pages).  Even Microsoft no longer calls it that.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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