SAX/C++: UTF-8 v UTF-16

[James Clark]

Richard Anderson wrote:

> > If you feel that one needs to be mandated, I would pick UTF-16.
> 
> I second that.  The Vivid Creation SAX interfaces
>  http://www.vivid-creations.com/free/sax.h ) have been UTF-16 from day 1
>  around 16 months ago ) and to date they've had nothing but positive
> feedback.  I'd therefore make everything wchar_t and not char.

Unfortunately wchar_t isn't guaranteed to be UTF-16.  Some platforms
make it 32-bits.  However, I agree it's a good idea for SAXChar to be
typedefed to wchar_t on platforms where wchar_t is UTF-16.

James


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