Re: [Boost-users] UTF-16

Hi My approach is using std::string, etc. all the time and using UTF-8 internally, only converting to other charsets when it's needed. I use IBM icu library and made a boost::iostreams filter to convert encoding, once it's done takes a lot of complexity away, I use it like: // setup a conversion from charset to utf-8 filt_streamb.push(ucnv_filter(charset.c_str(), "utf-8")); istream is(&filt_streamb); Perhaps there's interest to push this charset conversion into boost::iostreams filters examples. Regards. Robert Dailey wrote:

Oh, I also forgot to mention, I am also using boost::filesystem::path. I guess this means I need to use wchar_t everywhere (std::wstring, boost::filesystem::wpath, etc) and just let wxWidgets do the encoding/decoding? If I don't have to do any encoding/decoding myself, then there really is no need for a special object. But just in case I would like to have the encoding/decoding abilities.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:

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Hi everyone, I did a bit of googling to see if Boost 1.39 as any portable support for UTF-16 encoded strings, but I did not find any. I'm currently using wxWidgets in my application, and I need a decent string object to use. I know that wxWidgets has UTF-16 string support through wxString, however I do not want to expose this object in my interfaces. I want to remain as abstracted away from wxWidgets as possible. Having said that, if someone could tell me if there is any existing UTF-16 string support in Boost, I'd appreciate it. I did not find anything in the vault, sandbox, or trunk in Boost.

If boost has no such string object, could someone give me a head start on where to look? Thanks.

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