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Re: [LI] How Unicode string as a command line parameter?



>How do I pass a Unicode string as a command line parameter for Unix
>program?
>
Need more info about the environment of your program. 
Unicode involves at least 2 things:
Encoding: UTF8 is used by Linux.
Character Set: Linux is being standardised on ISO10646-1

Linux understands Unicode at the kernel level and very few applications
understand Unicode yet. The latest patch to XTerm can handle it. The kernel
uses wchar_t (wide char) to handle this data type so if your program runs in
Xterm or the console then it should be able to handle Unicode strings.

You can get more info at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
HTH
-swaps

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