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- From: clive@stdc.demon.co.uk (Clive D.W. Feather)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Multibyte and wide-character support
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 06:12:08 GMT
- Organization: Demon Internet Limited (personal account)
- Message-ID: <Do558A.6po@stdc.demon.co.uk>
- References: <4he9gg$m9l@pentagon.io.com> <KANZE.96Mar7135846@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>
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- In article <KANZE.96Mar7135846@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>,
- J. Kanze <kanze@gabi-soft.fr> wrote:
- >In article <4he9gg$m9l@pentagon.io.com> jamshid@io.com (Jamshid Afshar)
- >writes:
- >|> Btw, VC++4's docs say that if mbstowcs()'s wchar_t* destination
- >|> argument is NULL then the function doesn't do a conversion of the
- >|> multibyte string; it just returns the size needed to store the
- >|> multibyte string.
- > No mention of it in my copy of the standard.
-
- But mbsrtowcs has the functionality you require.
-
- >|> Also, the VC++4 docs seem to indicate fputws(), a
- >|> wchar_t version of fputs(), is "ANSI" compatible. Standard C doesn't
- >|> actually specify any wide-character i/o functions, does it?
- > There not in the index, anyway.
-
- Then your copy is out of date. fputws is part of the C Standard.
-
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