From 3183189326201660936 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,b1fa62568eb1d2a7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-27 08:58:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!diablo.theplanet.net!diablo.theplanet.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: remove.haberg@matematik.su.se (Hans Aberg) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Unicode vs. Char Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:57:37 GMT Organization: Mathematics Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <0hU68.89357$h31.5940930@e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com> <3C6B0579.6FB164C6@acm.org> <3C72E1EC.90E8CFD1@acm.org> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1014829063 mail2news:14093 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 22 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:9794 In article , kanze@gabi-soft.de (James Kanze) wrote: >There are a number of reasons why the standard shouldn't require a >specific code set, even for wchar_t. On the other hand, Unicode/ISO >10646 are universal enough that one might like some sort of indication >concerning their support, something like is_iec559 in numeric_limits >for IEEE floating pointer. I think you need (at least one) new character type for Unicode, in view of that wchar_t may have specialty uses. Hans Aberg * Anti-spam: remove "remove." from email address. * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]