[omniORB] Character Encoding

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 29 January, Grant Hickey wrote:

> -Does Corba provide any character encoding across platforms?
> -Are there any hooks into omniorb which would allow us to encode everything
> sent across the wire into unicode?

The CORBA standard does have code set negotiation, but omniORB 3 does
not support it yet. omniORB 4 will support it. If all you want to do
is transmit Unicode, your best bet is to send the data as a
sequence<unsigned short>.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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