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GCC and UTF-16 command line support

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  • 12-03-2008 9:10pm
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    Martyr
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    Hi

    Does anyone here have advice or links to tutorials that discuss programming applications on unix based operating systems with support for unicode input.

    the program i'm writing will be C/C++ based, run on any system with gcc, support unicode input from the command line.

    or should i avoid this, and write a gui instead?


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    Johnny Jukebox
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    Check out the iconv library - http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ - this supports character set conversion for most (all?) character sets.

    If your requirement is that the application handles UTF-16 internally, you could use iconv to convert from the character set in use when the application runs to UTF-16.


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    Martyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Martyr


    i'm looking at this you mention, and also ICU project

    thanks!


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