"George M. Garner Jr." <gmgarner@erols.com> wrote in message news:ci05c3$4d3$1@sea.gmane.org...
Johnathan,
The problem is really that I haven't finished writing the components that make this easy. For this, I apologize. (See User's Guide-->Code Conversion.)
Looking at the documentation for Code Conversion I do not see any way to convert from Unicode to multibyte. The converter class only works one way from multibyte to Unicode. I suppose this falls within the category of "not-yet-implemented."
You can convert from unicode to multibyte when performing output, and from multibyte to unicode when performing input. I thought about implementing the other directions, but I wasn't sure there was need for them. It certainly can be done.
I would like to see converter_impl accept codecvt_type as a template argument perhaps with a default of std::codecvt but so that I can replace it. const codecvt_type& cvt = codecvt_type() also would be added to the converter constructor.
I had it this way originally. I can't remember why I changed. Maybe concerns over code bloat. But it would certainly make the interface simpler, and Dinkumware CoreX does it this way, so maybe I'll switch back.
Regex works this way.
I wasn't aware of this, and can't find a reference in the docs. Could you post a link?
The other common code conversion task that is fairly Windows specific but a common task nonetheless is to convert \r\n to and from \n in text streams.
See basic_newline_filter (http://tinyurl.com/6x89t) :-)
Regards,
George.
Jonathan