CORBA23 — Wide character and wide string literals

Summary: Section 3.2.5 on page 3-9, 2nd para says:

Wide character and wide string literals are specified exactly
like character and string literals. All character and string
literals, both wide and non-wide, may only be specified
(portably) using the characters found in the ISO 8859-1 character
set, that is interface, names, operation names, type names, etc., will
continue to be limited to the ISO 8859-1 character set.

• The first part says that wide character literals and wide string literals
  are to be specified exactly like character and string literals.

This seems to be impossible - if they were exactly the same, there would
be no point in having them... At any rate, the sentence seems to
imply that I must restrict myself to ISO Latin-1 characters in
wide literals.

• The second part then says that wide literals are restricted to 8859-1,
  but that interface names (etc.) will continue to be limited to 8859-1.

Now what is that supposed to mean? Interface names have always (and
incorrectly) been limited to 8859-1. Nothing has changed. Am I to
imply then that the sentence was meant to suggest that wide literals
can actually contain wide characters other than 8859-1?

This paragraph simply doesn"t make sense as it stands.

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