[Boost-users] regex with multi-byte characters

Hello all, I am using wide characters from the Xerces-C library. These are defined as always being a 2 bytes characters by: typedef short XMLCh; // can be also defined through the #define preprocessor directive I don't remember it I also saw a post http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2003/09/5095.php where John answered that it is better to convert these character sequences on-the-fly to char. Somehow I don't like this approach, since I believe that with wrong encoding set on the system some information might get lost. Is it possible to use XMLCh as character traits in the regular expression if XMLCh* points to a null-terminated 2 bytes character sequence? -- With Kind Regards, Ovanes