Feature request: Support for platform default wide char ( wchar_t )

[howardhinnant]

Feature request: Support for platform default wide char ( wchar_t )

[HowardHinnant]

Ok, thanks for the feedback. I was actually wondering if anyone would ever notice the lack of wide stream support. Wide streams seem rarely used and I had actually started to wonder if anyone used them. You have proven to me that somebody does. :-) I will add wide stream support.

[pip3dr3am]

Wow! That's good news indeed! Looking forward to it :-) I think the main reason that nobody has come up with requesting wide char support is that most of your "users" are non Windows users. Every system call to the Windows OS is done in Unicode (UTF-16 LE => wchar_t in Windows). If you call the ANSI version of the OS call it will be translated to the Unicode version before being issued to the OS. If you have a lot of them (whatever the critical mass may be) it will make the application "slower". So I just code everything in wchar_t, live with the wasted one byte, but enjoy faster speed since I directly call the Unicode functions and avoid costly translations....

[HowardHinnant]

See if 76bef1f meets your needs.

[HowardHinnant]

Fixed.