From -8573844559640695471 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,78e06f1e375dae0d X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-03 10:09:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!194.176.220.129!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Ron Natalie Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: std::exception not wchar_t complient? Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:08:01 GMT Organization: Sensor Systems Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3A5368DA.CD17BA4A@spamcop.net> References: <92u8gf$7ct$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 978545303 mail2news:9737 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Authentication-Warning: backdraft.briar.org: smap set sender to using -f X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 13:03:07 EST Lines: 25 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.std.c++:3159 peter_c_murray@my-deja.com wrote: > > The std library I'm using (VC6/Plauger) has the following member > function in std::exception > > virtual const char *what() const throw(); > > Is it correct that there is no wchar_t version of this? Or is there an > equivalent wchar_t specialised std exception that I don't know about? > Nope. C++ (and C for that matter) don't provide really provide wide character support for interfaces other than the string handlers and the contents of data streams. You'll have to convert it yourself if you need a wide version. --- [ 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 ] [ Note that the FAQ URL has changed! Please update your bookmarks. ]