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My code is basically this: wstring japan = L"日本"; wstring message = L"Welcome! Japan is "; message += japan; wprintf(message.c_str()); I'm wishing to use wide strings but I do not know how they're outputted, so I used wprintf. When I run something such as: ./widestr | hexdump The hexidecimal codepoints create this: 65 57 63 6c 6d 6f 21 65 4a 20 70 61 6e 61 69 20 20 73 3f 3f e W c l m o ! e J p a n a i s ? ? Why are they all jumped in order? I mean if the wprintf is wrong I still don't get why it'd output in such a specific jumbled order! edit: endianness or something? they seem to rotate each

I'm not quite pro with encodings, but here's what I think I know (though it may be wrong): ASCII is a 7-bit, fixed-length encoding, with the characters you can find in ASCII charts. UTF8 is an 8-bit, variable-length encoding. All characters can be written in UTF8. UCS-2 LE/BE are fixed-length, 16-bit encodings that support most common characters. UTF-16 is a 16-bit, variable-length encoding. All characters can be written in UTF16. Are those above all correct? Now, for the questions: Do the Windows "A" functions (like SetWindowTextA ) take in ASCII strings? Or "multi-byte strings" (more

I'm upgrading some ancient (from 2003) Delphi code to Delphi Architect XE and I'm running into a few problems. I am getting a number of errors where there are incompatible types. These errors don't happen in Delphi 6 so I must assume that this is because things have been upgraded. I honestly don't know what the difference between PAnsiChar and PWideChar is, but Delphi sure knows the difference and won't let me compile. If I knew what the differences were maybe I could figure out which to use or how to fix this. The short: prior to Delphi 2009 the native string type in Delphi used to be ANSI

I came across this in the book: wscanf(L"%lf", &variable); where the first parameter is of type of wchar_t * . This s different from scanf("%lf", &variable); where the first parameter is of type char * . So what is the difference than. I have never heard "wide character string" before. I have heard something called Raw String Literals which is printing the string as it is (no need for things like escape sequences) but that was not in C. The exact nature of wide characters is (purposefully) left implementation defined. When they first invented the concept of wchar_t , ISO 10646 and Unicode were

Is there any reason why Java char primitive data type is 2 bytes unlike C which is 1 byte? Thanks When Java was originally designed, it was anticipated that any Unicode character would fit in 2 bytes (16 bits), so char and Character were designed accordingly. In fact, a Unicode character can now require up to 4 bytes. Thus, UTF-16, the internal Java encoding, requires supplementary characters use 2 code units. Characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (the most common ones) still use 1. A Java char is used for each code unit. This Sun article explains it well. char in Java is UTF-16 encoded,