Locale-Sensitive Character Set Names

Internationalization (I18n) Issue:

These names are potentially locale-sensitive because they indicate a hardcoded character set in the source code.

I18n Solution:

If character sets must be specified within the application, externalize the character set name. Using this technique ensures maximum flexibility within the system.

I18n Discussion:

Perhaps the most obvious internationalization issue is the support of international characters. The easiest way to support international characters is to create applications that use Unicode, which supports characters from all commercially viable languages. An excellent discussion of Unicode can be found in Unicode a Primer, by Tony Graham, (MIS Press, M&T Books, 2000). A concise introduction to Unicode, focusing on the Unicode encodings used by Microsoft and the Unix community, can be found in Chapter 2 of the IBM ICU documentation (see ICU Documentation), at the Unicode Homepage, and the Unicode UCS-2 discussion.

Locale-Sensitive Character Set Name List:

This I18n issue applies to the following potentially locale-sensitive constants:

ANSI_CHARSET
ARABIC_CHARSET
BALTIC_CHARSET
CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET
DEFAULT_CHARSET
EASTEUROPE_CHARSET
ELF_CULTURE_LATIN
FS_ARABIC
FS_BALTIC
FS_CHINESESIMP
FS_CHINESETRAD
FS_CYRILLIC
FS_GREEK
FS_HEBREW
FS_JISJAPAN
FS_JOHAB
FS_LATIN1
FS_LATIN2
FS_SYMBOL
FS_THAI
FS_TURKISH
FS_VIETNAMESE
FS_WANSUNG
GB2312_CHARSET
GREEK_CHARSET
HANGEUL_CHARSET
HANGUL_CHARSET
HEBREW_CHARSET
JOHAB_CHARSET
MAC_CHARSET
OEM_CHARSET
PAN_CULTURE_LATIN
RUSSIAN_CHARSET
SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
SYMBOL_CHARSET
THAI_CHARSET
TURKISH_CHARSET
VIETNAMESE_CHARSET

Locale-Sensitive C++ Methods