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From: Pete Becker <petebecker@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Unicode vs. Char
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Hans Aberg wrote:
> 
> C++ does have some "Unicode" strings, but it turns out that they do not
> guarantee to produce any Unicode characters.
> 

The word "unicode" is used exactly once in the C++ standard, in
22.2.1.5/1:

	The class codecvt<internT,externT,stateT> is for use when
	converting from one codeset to another, such as from wide
	characters to multibyte characters, between wide character
	encodings such as Unicode and EUC.

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Pete Becker
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