\subsection{What is Unicode?}\label{whatisunicode}
-Starting with release 2.1 wxWidgets has support for compiling in Unicode mode
+wxWidgets has support for compiling in Unicode mode
on the platforms which support it. Unicode is a standard for character
encoding which addresses the shortcomings of the previous, 8 bit standards, by
using at least 16 (and possibly 32) bits for encoding each character. This
\subsection{Unicode-related compilation settings}\label{unicodesettings}
You should define {\tt wxUSE\_UNICODE} to $1$ to compile your program in
-Unicode mode. Note that it currently only works in Win32 and GTK 2.0 and
-that some parts of
-wxWidgets are not Unicode-compliant yet. If you
+Unicode mode. This currently works for wxMSW, wxGTK, wxMac and wxX11. If you
compile your program in ANSI mode you can still define {\tt wxUSE\_WCHAR\_T}
to get some limited support for {\tt wchar\_t} type.