std::string and unicode

[Declan McMullen]

Cheers guys.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:02 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Yes, it's correct that std::string doesn't support Unicode. Unicode
> requires more than one byte per character (except for ASCII characters in
> UTF8), so wxChar becomes either 16bit or 32bit (depending on the platform=
).
> You'll have to transcode everything that you need to pass between
> std::string and wxString, and you'll have to wrap all of your literals in
> wxT macro. See the topic overviews on Unicode support and Conversion betw=
een
> Unicode and multibyte strings.
> There's an alternative, but it requires that you switch to the development
> branch. The Unicode support for 2.9/3.0 has been rewritten to use UTF8,
> which uses 8-bit wxChar and is therefore somewhat interoperable with
> std::string if you're careful about it.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Declan McMullen wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
> I'm slightly confused about something. Does std::string not support
> unicode ?
> I have stl enabled in my wxwidgets compilation. The reason I did it is
> because
> I have some backend classes that use std::string and I didnt want to be
> converting to
> and from std::string to wxString. Turning on stl meant my strings could be
> interchangeable.
>
> However I want to work with locales so I went to use the unicode build of
> wx widgets, this
> however fails to allow me to have interchangeable strings.
>
> So if I want to use unicode will I have to use wxString and perform a
> conversion?
>
> I've been looking through the internationalization section of the book but
> i've ended up confused :)
>
> Any guidance much appreciated.
>
>
>
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