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Re: How to get standard paths?!?

From David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: How to get standard paths?!?
Date 2019-08-17 20:24 +0200
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On 17/08/2019 18:06, Bonita Montero wrote:
>> It is required to be big enough for any of the compiler's 
>> wide-character execution set.  Since Windows supports Unicode 
>> (regardless of the encodings used), a Windows compiler must be able to 
>> hold any Unicode code point in a wchar_t - i.e., wchar_t must be a 
>> minimum of 32 bit.
> 
> Win32 uses UTF-16 and there will never be more populated codepoints
> than UTF-16 can cover; so where's the problem?

There is no problem with using UTF-16 for strings - except that it is an 
encoding that combines all the disadvantages of UTF-8 with all the 
disadvantages of UTF-32 with none of their advantages.  But you cannot 
store a arbitrary Unicode /character/ in a single 16-bit object. 
Critically, you cannot store a Unicode CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) 
ideograph in a single 16-bit wchar_t, despite these characters being 
supported by Windows.  You /can/ store them in a char32_t, or a 32-bit 
wchar_t.

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How to get standard paths?!? Szyk Cech <szykcech@spoko.pl> - 2019-08-17 13:58 +0200
  Re: How to get standard paths?!? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 14:02 +0200
    Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 14:05 +0200
      Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 15:11 +0200
        Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 15:59 +0200
          Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 16:20 +0200
            Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 16:28 +0200
              Re: How to get standard paths?!? Ralf Goertz <me@myprovider.invalid> - 2019-08-17 16:37 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 16:54 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2019-08-17 20:39 +0300
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 19:44 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 20:10 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 21:41 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 17:40 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 17:52 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 18:00 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 18:01 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 18:26 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 20:20 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 11:34 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-08-18 13:07 +0100
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 15:49 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2019-08-18 20:33 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-08-18 20:51 +0100
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2019-08-19 00:04 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-08-25 05:35 -0700
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-25 15:02 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-08-25 06:38 -0700
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-25 15:46 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-25 15:54 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-19 08:52 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-19 09:32 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-08-22 12:37 -0700
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-19 10:26 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 18:00 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 18:06 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 20:24 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 08:49 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 11:46 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 12:59 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-08-18 15:40 +0000
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 17:44 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-08-18 15:38 +0000
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 17:46 +0200
              Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 17:56 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 18:05 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 20:46 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 08:54 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 12:07 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 13:05 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 14:48 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 15:51 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 16:43 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 17:02 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 20:41 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-17 16:46 -0700
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 12:22 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-08-17 22:57 -0500
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 08:57 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 12:24 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 13:07 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 13:13 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-19 08:25 +0200
  Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 14:02 +0200
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