Subj : Re: SpiderMonkey: JS_InitStandardClasses allways fails
To   : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Georg_Maa=DF?= <georg@vnett.de>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Wed May 14 2003 02:05 pm

Georg Maaß wrote:

> Brendan Eich wrote:
>
>> You are defining a type system with ambiguities. Why not always use 
>> wstring?
>
>
> Because most system stuff needs char*, which I can generate from 
> std::string, but there is nothing to convert from std::wstring to 
> char* or std::string. This cause me to use std::string not std::wstring.
>

What character set encoding does "most system stuff" expect to be in a 
char array passed via a char * formal parameter?  ASCII?  ISO-Latin-1?  
A multi-byte encoding?

/be

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