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Home » U++ Library support » U++ Libraries and TheIDE: i18n, Unicode and Internationalization » 16 bits wchar
Re: 16 bits wchar [message #8059 is a reply to message #8036] Mon, 05 February 2007 23:07 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
mirek is currently offline  mirek
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riri wrote on Mon, 05 February 2007 11:19

Hi all!

That makes now a long time I didn't post to this forum Smile

Just a metaphysic (and maybe ridiculous) question: I saw WString uses 16 bits integers as internal character values; is it suitable for any language, as all Unicode code points can't represented in 65535 values ?
#ifdef PLATFORM_WINCE
typedef WCHAR              wchar;
#else
typedef word               wchar;
#endif


Again, it can be a stupid question, but if I well understood, internal strings representation is in Unicode format, no?


Well, the main problem is that Win32 GDI output works with 16-bit characters -> wchar better be 16-bit.

Other than that, yes, it works in most cases. UNICODE characters >65536 are quite special (like Toolkien's alphabet) and not supported by any fonts.


Mirek
 
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