On Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 at 11:10 AM, Jonathan Wakely via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025, 17:38 Simon Schröder via Std-Proposals, <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> > Does it have to be called std::wprint? Or should we just overload std::print with wchar_t?
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> Yes, that's what std::format does.


There is another direction: allow std::print
with narrow format string to accept
wide string argument.

The value of wide format string in std::print
is fairly low... Because unlike std::format,
where wide format string produces
std::wstring, std::print is a sink where
narrow format string and wide format
string supposed to make no difference
in the outcome (can you tell whether
the string was wide or narrow from the console?).
The useful bits for me are to allow occasional
wide string results to substitute my narrow
"placeholder{:s}."

This practice is exactly what C printf supports
(%ws placeholder).

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