Re: wchar_t <--> Unicode Conversion

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <20010606024848.A1171@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    "Michael B. Allen" <mballen@xxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> Yes, SMB A.K.A CIFS. Where did you hear that it used UTF-16? I've been
> doing SMB stuff for a while and I know the CIFS spec like the back of
> my hand but I have to admit I don't recall seeing any information that
> ever explicitly stated what encoding was to be used. The spec just reads
> "Unicode". Interesting.
> 

Well, basically UTF-16 was invented for all the W*nd*ws stuff that
went to UCS-2, which was then shown to be insufficient.

     -hpa

#include <utf16/stdflame.h>
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