how to initial and print the unicode character?

[wizardyhnr]

i want to try ANSI C99's unicode fuctions. so i write a test program.
the function is simple, but i cannot compile it with dev c++ 4.9.9.2
under windows xp sp2, since the compiler always think that the
initialization of the wchar_t string is illegal. here is my function:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <wctype.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
wchar_t *cur_buff=L"X";
wprintf(cur_buf f);
return 0;
}

in the function, the initialization of wchar_t *cur_buff is L"X", if X
is an ascii character, then all things function well. But if X is
non-ascii charater such as a Chinese character, compiler would alert
that this is a illegal byte sequence. The source file is saved as ascci
code, and the character set is gb2312. i wonder why this happens?

[Andrew Poelstra]

On 2006-07-04, wizardyhnr <wi********@gma il.comwrote:

i want to try ANSI C99's unicode fuctions. so i write a test program.
the function is simple, but i cannot compile it with dev c++ 4.9.9.2
under windows xp sp2, since the compiler always think that the
initialization of the wchar_t string is illegal. here is my function:

Without looking at your actual problem, here's a few tips:
1) It's fairly unlikely that you actually have a C99 compiler.
2) It's very unlikely that something with the word "C++" in it
is even a C compiler, let alone a C99 compiler.

Other than that, we don't care what OS or platform you have. We discuss
standard C here, and that's platform independant.

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[Alf P. Steinbach]

* wizardyhnr:

i want to try ANSI C99's unicode fuctions. so i write a test program.
the function is simple, but i cannot compile it with dev c++ 4.9.9.2
under windows xp sp2, since the compiler always think that the
initialization of the wchar_t string is illegal. here is my function:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <wctype.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
wchar_t *cur_buff=L"X";
wprintf(cur_buf f);
return 0;
}

in the function, the initialization of wchar_t *cur_buff is L"X", if X
is an ascii character, then all things function well. But if X is
non-ascii charater such as a Chinese character, compiler would alert
that this is a illegal byte sequence. The source file is saved as ascci
code, and the character set is gb2312. i wonder why this happens?

Don't know about C, but in C++ you'd have to put a 'const' in there,

wchar_t const* curr_buff = L"X";

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[Ben Pfaff]

"Alf P. Steinbach" <al***@start.no writes:

* wizardyhnr:

> wchar_t *cur_buff=L"X";

Don't know about C, but in C++ you'd have to put a 'const' in there,
wchar_t const* curr_buff = L"X";

Not in C.
--
"It wouldn't be a new C standard if it didn't give a
new meaning to the word `static'."
--Peter Seebach on C99

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Ben Pfaff:

"Alf P. Steinbach" <al***@start.no writes:

>* wizardyhnr:

>> wchar_t *cur_buff=L"X";

Don't know about C, but in C++ you'd have to put a 'const' in there,
wchar_t const* curr_buff = L"X";

Not in C.

On second thought, perhaps not in C++ either (sorry for being a bit
fast). Haven't checked, and since this is a C newsgroup, won't do. The
C++ non-const possibility for char* is just for C compatibility.

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[Richard Heathfield]

wizardyhnr said:

i want to try ANSI C99's unicode [functions].

Unicode is not mentioned even once in my copy of the C99 Standard. On the
other hand, wide characters /are/ so mentioned, so let's assume you meant
that.

<snip>

in the function, the initialization of wchar_t *cur_buff is L"X", if X
is an ascii character, then all things function well. But if X is
non-ascii charater such as a Chinese character, compiler would alert
that this is a illegal byte sequence.

As long as the compiler (or, almost certainly, the preprocessor in this
case) supports the basic source character set, it remains within its rights
to reject any other characters it encounters within the source code.

You can, however, read information into a wchar_t from a file at run-time. I
suggest you explore that option.

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email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)

[Harald van Dijk]

Richard Heathfield wrote:

wizardyhnr said:

i want to try ANSI C99's unicode [functions].

Unicode is not mentioned even once in my copy of the C99 Standard. On the
other hand, wide characters /are/ so mentioned, so let's assume you meant
that.

Unicode is explicitly mentioned in TC2 in the description for
__STDC_ISO_1064 6__, and while the wording before TC2 does not mention
"Unicode", the differences between Unicode and ISO 10646 are not
relevant here.

#ifndef __STDC_ISO_1064 6__
#error
#endif
/* Now, the assumption that C's wide character functions are Unicode
functions is valid */

Also, the \U and \u escape sequences work with Unicode / ISO 10646
character values.

[Richard Bos]

Andrew Poelstra <ap*******@loca lhost.localdoma inwrote:

On 2006-07-04, wizardyhnr <wi********@gma il.comwrote:

i want to try ANSI C99's unicode fuctions. so i write a test program.
the function is simple, but i cannot compile it with dev c++ 4.9.9.2
under windows xp sp2, since the compiler always think that the
initialization of the wchar_t string is illegal. here is my function:

Without looking at your actual problem, here's a few tips:

0) It's ISO C99, and has been from the start.

1) It's fairly unlikely that you actually have a C99 compiler.

It's actually 100% sure he hasn't.

2) It's very unlikely that something with the word "C++" in it
is even a C compiler, let alone a C99 compiler.

It's actually 100% sure it is an IDE with compiler suite which provides
C++, C89, and a Win32 library (MingW, to be precise), but not C99.

Richard

[santosh]

wizardyhnr wrote:

i want to try ANSI C99's unicode fuctions. so i write a test program.
the function is simple, but i cannot compile it with dev c++ 4.9.9.2
under windows xp sp2, since the compiler always think that the
initialization of the wchar_t string is illegal. here is my function:

[snip code]

I'm only guessing but I think the source character set of your compiler
doesn't support characters other than the basic C character set.

Maybe the following URLs could shed some light in this obscure area?
<http://evanjones.ca/unicode-in-c.html>
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.u k/~mgk25/unicode.html>
<http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF>

Also the authoritative resource:
<http://www.unicode.org/>

[santosh]

wizardyhnr wrote:

i want to try ANSI C99's unicode fuctions.

[snip]

The following leans towards Linux, it's still a good introduction to
Unicode and C's support for it by means of the wchar_t type and
standard library functions.

<http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuni.html>