20.04.2011 0:54, Ryou Ezoe пишет:
UCS and its encoding UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 will be specified in upcoming C++0x standard. On the other hand, standard still does not say ASCII. The basic source character set does not cover all ASCII characters. So using ASCII is not portable. You are right. translate("Peace") will not work if the source file is EBCDIC-encoded and if the translations were made from the ascii-encoded english. But with EBCDIC-encoded translations all probably will be OK.
You may even use CP932 for the translations (if the target language strings can be encoded into CP932, of course. I mean, you can use CP932 directly if you want to "translate" your software to some japanese slang/argot). Or, you may mix the different encodings in the translation file (it is not easy, of course, to work with such files). -- Sergey Cheban