2012/3/28 Earnie Boyd <ear...@users.sourceforge.net>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Jim Michaels <jmich...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > they tabled it for C++11. which I thought wasn't too bright. maybe it
> was
> > someone who used the windows cmd shell and never figured out he could
> switch
> > from raster font to"lucida console".
> >
>
> It has nothing to do with C++11, it is about Microsoft and their
> desires to want you using the Windows API instead of the C runtime.
> And Ruben's sample code was C and not C++ specific although he stated
> the C++ API exhibited the same results.
>
Although I share your sentiments wrt to a bad C runtime implementation on
Windows, this is strictly not forbidden by the Standard. It just happens
that the *nix wprintf family converts the wchar_t's to UTF-8, which is
supported by the regular char printf's. The Standards only state that an
implementation defined conversion happens, which happens to be a conversion
to the local ANSI codepage on Windows. Conclusion: it's the C/C++ wchar_t
output functionality that is broken, not the Windows implementation of it.
Programs relying on any "right" conversion to be happening there are
relying on implementation defined behavior and thus are not portable by
design.
I know, it sucks, and it surprised me too.
Ruben
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