Tom,

on Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:51:26 -0400 you (Tom Honermann
<tom_at_[hidden]>) wrote:

> I'm not aware of anything in C++ that forces better Unicode support.

In C++ the `u` and `U` prefixes guarantee UTF-16 and UTF-32
encoding. In C they don't. Here you only have guaranties of 16 and 32
bit encodings and you need to query a feature test macro to know if
effectively they have the Unicode encodings.

> WG21's SG16 is working to improve support for Unicode, but not with
> the intent to exclude support for legacy character sets.

I know, but this is somewhat better encapsulated into `wchar_t`. In C
that may spread to the other wide character and wide string types.

Jens

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