wchar_t <--> Unicode Conversion

["Michael B. Allen" <mballen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm writing a network server that does a lot of work in UCS-2LE
a.k.a. UnicodeLittle. For reasons of effiency I would like to use an
unsigned short type to represent UCS-2 strings and convert to UTF-8 when
making calls into the system(e.g. fopen) and wchar_t for sophisticated
string manipulation on an as required basis. I'm having a little trouble
converting between UCS-2 and wchar_t and back however. I take it wchar_t
does not have a portable "encoding" like UCS-4 but rather it's own
"encoding"(what?) and therefore I must go through UTF-8; UCS-2 <-->
UTF-8 <--> wchar_t?

Why doesn't wchar_t play nice with Unicode?

Thanks,
Mike
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