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I am reading an c++ document, it said as this,
Wide characters are used mainly to
represent non-English or exotic
character sets.
What’s the exactly meaning for exotic character sets?
I think it has no “technical” meaning, it’s used as in “strange” or “unusual” character sets.
Since we’re talking about wide characters, in general we are actually talking about Unicode; I’d say that Cuneiform or Klingon1 could be considered as “exotic character sets”. Or even those Unicode blocks not intended for languages, but for symbols of various nature (mathematical symbols, arrows, alchemical symbols, …).