Jens Seidel wrote There is simple no need for wchar_t on Linux. If you use a classical encoding in your filesystem it is a 8bit one (except you use a Asian language such as Japanese). All modern distributions switched already to UTF-8 as default encoding and for this you don't need wchar_t as well. Use ordinary char* streams for this ...
Remember that you know for UTF-8 always where the current character stops if you just have a pointer to an arbritary byte (in the middle of a multi-byte character). It's also useless to group bytes pairwise as a valid UTF-8 character can consist of more than two bytes. char* is really sufficent.
wchar_t is required on Windows, if Linux doesn't support it fully cross platform work is complicated. Jim ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential. If you have received it in error, do not use or disclose the information in any way, notify me immediately, and please delete it from your system. ________________________________________________________________________