[Mingw-users] wide input stream get() 98 vs. NT, Unicode?

[John G. <joh...@ya...>]

Q: If I compile with Mingw on Win98, and then run that executable on NT or
Win2000, will wistream get() get me a Unicode character, like (I think) it
should on NT, or will get() get me a single byte from the native code page
like (I think) it would on 98?

Details:

I am using Win98 and Mingw to build a lexer/parser DLL which is going to
have to be able to support Japanese text. If everything is done with
Unicode, then I don't have any issues, but if the lexer is fed one byte at a
time from multi-byte code pages, then I'm in trouble.

If I can compile it on Win98, but only support Japanese text if it is /run/
on NT or 2000, then I am OK.

As far as I know, on Win98 a wistream get() will get me a single byte from
the native code page, but I am happy enough to simply not support multi-byte
code pages on 95/98.

Sorry if this is documented somewhere, after a couple of days of reading and
searching, I haven't got it figured out yet.

TIA
John Green


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