Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals

From	Manfred <noname@add.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals
Date	2021-12-07 19:07 +0100
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On 12/7/2021 5:38 PM, James Kuyper wrote:
> * I remember hearing rumors that modern versions of Windows do provide
> some support for UTF-8, but that support is neither complete, nor the
> default. You have know what you need to do to enable such support - I don't.

One relevant addition that is relatively recent is support to/from UTF-8 
in the APIs WideCharToMultiByte and MultiByteToWideChar.
These allow to handle UTF-8 programmatically in code.
Windows itself still uses UTF-16 internally.
I don't know how filenames are stored on disk.

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Character encoding conversion in wide string literals Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2021-12-07 11:37 +0000
  Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2021-12-07 16:44 +0100
    Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-12-07 11:48 -0500
      Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2021-12-07 18:59 +0100
        Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-12-07 13:55 -0500
        Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2021-12-07 16:39 -0800
        Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-12-08 09:18 +0100
    Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-12-07 09:41 -0800
      Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2021-12-07 19:07 +0100
        Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-12-07 12:21 -0800
      Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2021-12-07 20:32 +0200
        Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-12-07 13:55 -0500
        Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-12-07 12:26 -0800
  Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-12-07 11:38 -0500
    Re: Character encoding conversion in wide string literals Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2021-12-07 19:07 +0100

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