Re: [boost] [General] Always treat std::strings as UTF-8

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Matus Chochlik <chochlik@gmail.com> wrote:

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and creating a new string class/wrapper for UTF-8 that nobody uses,

lol - well no one is going to use it until it exists.

Is it necessary to explain that I did not mean it that way. What I meant that we can hardly expect that everybody will adopt utf8_t when Boost introduces it. As a consequence everybody will remain with std::string and ANSI encodings.

I think maybe you underestimate our influence. It won't be immediate, but I believe we *could* produce the new lingua franca and get it widely-adopted. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com