+// Note: this macro is an implementation detail (see the comment in
+// strconv.cpp). The wxGet_XXX() and wxGet_XXXPtr() functions shouldn't be
+// used by user code and neither should XXXPtr, use the wxConvXXX macro
+// instead.
+#define WX_DECLARE_GLOBAL_CONV(klass, name) \
+ extern WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(klass*) name##Ptr; \
+ extern WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE klass* wxGet_##name##Ptr(); \
+ inline klass& wxGet_##name() \
+ { \
+ if ( !name##Ptr ) \
+ name##Ptr = wxGet_##name##Ptr(); \
+ return *name##Ptr; \
+ }
+
+
+// conversion to be used with all standard functions affected by locale, e.g.
+// strtol(), strftime(), ...
+WX_DECLARE_GLOBAL_CONV(wxMBConv, wxConvLibc)
+#define wxConvLibc wxGet_wxConvLibc()
+
+// conversion ISO-8859-1/UTF-7/UTF-8 <-> wchar_t
+WX_DECLARE_GLOBAL_CONV(wxCSConv, wxConvISO8859_1)
+#define wxConvISO8859_1 wxGet_wxConvISO8859_1()
+
+WX_DECLARE_GLOBAL_CONV(wxMBConvStrictUTF8, wxConvUTF8)
+#define wxConvUTF8 wxGet_wxConvUTF8()
+
+WX_DECLARE_GLOBAL_CONV(wxMBConvUTF7, wxConvUTF7)
+#define wxConvUTF7 wxGet_wxConvUTF7()
+
+// conversion used for the file names on the systems where they're not Unicode
+// (basically anything except Windows)
+//
+// this is used by all file functions, can be changed by the application
+//
+// by default UTF-8 under Mac OS X and wxConvLibc elsewhere (but it's not used
+// under Windows normally)
+extern WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv *) wxConvFileName;
+
+// backwards compatible define
+#define wxConvFile (*wxConvFileName)
+
+// the current conversion object, may be set to any conversion, is used by
+// default in a couple of places inside wx (initially same as wxConvLibc)
+extern WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv *) wxConvCurrent;
+
+// the conversion corresponding to the current locale
+WX_DECLARE_GLOBAL_CONV(wxCSConv, wxConvLocal)
+#define wxConvLocal wxGet_wxConvLocal()
+
+// the conversion corresponding to the encoding of the standard UI elements
+//
+// by default this is the same as wxConvLocal but may be changed if the program
+// needs to use a fixed encoding
+extern WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv *) wxConvUI;
+
+#undef WX_DECLARE_GLOBAL_CONV
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// endianness-dependent conversions
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
+ typedef wxMBConvUTF16BE wxMBConvUTF16;
+ typedef wxMBConvUTF32BE wxMBConvUTF32;