tchar.h on linux

c++ linux internationalization tchar
Sudarshan picture Sudarshan · May 22, 2009 · Viewed 41.1k times · Source

I am trying to write cross platform i18n C++ code. Since most linux system prefer to use UTF-8 as the character encoding, I thought that I should use string on linux and wstring on Windows. Is tchar.h available on linux? What is an equivalent replacement on for tchar.h on Linux?

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Paul Sonier picture Paul Sonier · May 22, 2009

You may find this article to be useful. In particular, near the end they discuss a bit about using TCHAR and dealing with Windows code.

The article summarization is:

TCHAR will be translated into a wide character data type when compiling this code with the GNU C Compiler (most portable libraries define TCHAR in their headers and refer to wchar_t). This, in fact, was how I turned my C++ program into an anagram generator: I used standard C++ strings filled with UTF-8 and fed the data with pointers casted to wchar_t to library functions. UTF-8 data interpreted as UTF-32 equals garbage (but it is tremendously useful for obfuscation of data and bugs).

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