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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:49:41AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> David Schultz wrote:
>> ... whether it would make more sense to standardize on something like
>> UCS-4 for the internal representation.
>
> YES.  Without this, wchar_t is useless.

I strongly disagree. Everything can be represented as UCS-4 is a bad
assumption, but something Americans and Europeans naturally don't have
to care about.

Joerg