Re: wchar_t <--> Unicode Conversion

[hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (H. Peter Anvin)]

Followup to:  <20010602174900.A3933@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    "Michael B. Allen" <mballen@xxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> > If __STDC_ISO_10646__ is defined BY THE
> > IMPLEMENTATION (not by you!), then wchar_t is UCS
> 
> Ok, I see now. I never actually found any information that explicitly
> stated that the actall encoding of wchar_t was UCS such that you can do
> things like byte for byte copy.
> 

Not byte for byte, since you don't know the byte order necessarily,
but at very least datum for datum.

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