Re: [Boost-users] General C++: Class Method Signatures Miss-Match

Rodrigo Madera wrote:

I know this is not the best source, but it will shed some light:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wt3s3k55(VS.80).aspx

You shouldn't be creating your own wide string class unless you have a really good reason not to use wstring.

Regards, Madera

Thank you. I figured it out. When I called the substr method of unicode::string is was accessing std::basic_string::substr and therefore returning std::basic_string type. I will just override that with my own class method. Wide chars as far as I know are different from platform to platform. Microsoft uses 16 bit wide chars while *nix uses 32 bit wide chars. And for unicode I need at least 21 bits. Etienne