Re: [boost] Re: Any interest in adding unicode support to boost?

e) There is nothing particularly special about unicode in this scheme. Its just one more encoding scheme among many. Therefore making a special unicode library would be unnecessarily specific. Any efforts so spent would be better invested in generic encoding/decoding algorithms and/or setting up locale facts for specific encodings UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.

Robert, there is a lot more to Unicode than an encoding form: Character properties. Collation. Bidirectional character handling. Character shaping algorithms. And lots more I've forgotten: do take a look at ICU, I don't like the C++ design much, but it's a *huge* and technically very competent library. John.