de strings. The
original implementation supports Unicode only. At the time, the CORBA specification
required wide characters, whether standalone or in a wide string, to be
marshaled as 16-bit quantities. This is the same size as the native wchar_t
type on Win32 platforms. However, the wchar_t type on UNIX and related
platforms is 32 bits in size. In addition, the General Inter-ORB Protocol
(GIOP) version 1.2 has changed the CDR transfer syntax for wide characters.
In the new version, a wide character is mar