[Info-vax] Character sets

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/3/2022 3:30 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Pedant notes: yes, I do know about wchar_t and friends in C and C++, 
> which is... a mess, and is also ill-suited for UTF-8.  Probably better 
> to use char16_t and char32_t, if you do need fixed-width wide character 
> storage.

wchar_t is a typical C vague definition where char16_t and char32_t are
much more clearly defined.

But wchar_t got runtime support.

C (and for that matter also C++) IO functions does not not
make writing/reading UTF-8 easy.

Newer languages does much better.

Arne