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There is a macro CP_UTF8 defined on Windows platform. I am wondering what is the related macro on Linux platform and which header file should I include if I want to use this macro.
2. Like you already noted, "CP_UTF8" is indeed a Windows/Microsoft thing, it specifies a "Code Page" (a Microsoft-specific thing) of "UTF-8" (Unicode, an international standard, which maps to simple ASCII text).
3. "Classic" Unix (including most parts of the standard C and C++ runtime libraries in current versions of Linux) and "classic" Win16 (including the Win9x OS and the default output from most Visual Studio C++ compilers) have native 8-bit text.
Java, .Net (and the Windows NT/win2k/XP kernel) have native Unicode (typically 16-bit) text.
2. Like you already noted, "CP_UTF8" is indeed a Windows/Microsoft thing, it specifies a "Code Page" (a Microsoft-specific thing) of "UTF-8" (Unicode, an international standard, which maps to simple ASCII text).
3. "Classic" Unix (including most parts of the standard C and C++ runtime libraries in current versions of Linux) and "classic" Win16 (including the Win9x OS and the default output from most Visual Studio C++ compilers) have native 8-bit text.
Java, .Net (and the Windows NT/win2k/XP kernel) have native Unicode (typically 16-bit) text.
Please keep in mind: "Code Pages" are limited to 8-bit characters; they are *not* the way you should be doing internationalization for any new code on any contemporary platform. You should be using Unicode: which is fully supported by Unix and Windows; by C, C++, Java, C# and most other popular languages.
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