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18 \subsection{What is Unicode?}\label{whatisunicode}
21 on the platforms which support it. Unicode is a standard for character
24 allows to have at least 65536 characters (what is called the BMP, or basic
26 is sufficient to encode all of the world languages at once. More details about
31 As this solution is obviously preferable to the previous ones (think of
33 modern operating systems support it. The probably first example is Windows NT
36 Writing internationalized programs is much easier with Unicode and, as the
41 each time a system call is made.
46 many cases it is unwise to write a program which can only work in Unicode
47 environment. A better solution is to write programs in such way that they may
63 store the characters ({\tt char} only holds 1 byte usually). This type is
68 of {\tt char} which only takes one. This is achieved by using the standard C
77 length of a wide-character string is called {\tt wcslen()} (compare with
78 {\tt strlen()} - you see that the only difference is that the "str" prefix
83 strings but it is more likely that Unicode strings are wanted in the Unicode
88 To summarize, here is a brief example of how a program which can be compiled
109 program would have had!). Luckily, there is another way - see the next
128 depending on the mode in which program is being compiled. There is no need for
133 Finally, there is a special \helpref{wxT()}{wxt} macro which should enclose all
134 literal strings in the program. As it is easy to see comparing the last
138 The important conclusion is that if you use {\tt wxChar} instead of
149 wxWidgets macro \helpref{\_()}{underscore} does it, for example, so there is no
161 ANSI strings (a notable exception is the entire Win32 API which accepts either
169 representation which is either ASCII or Unicode). More rarely used, but still
170 useful, is wc\_str() function which always returns
173 Sometimes it is also necessary to go from ANSI strings to wxStrings.
182 but in that case the converter is ignored.