"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:6.0.3.0.2.20041217180614.028a8028@mailhost.esva.net... | At 05:01 PM 12/17/2004, Jonathan Turkanis wrote: | | >The Dinkumware CoreX library also contains a component, wstring_convert, | >for this purpose. Since it doesn't make a detour through streams, it | might | >be more efficient. | | Dinkumware is proposing part of their library for standardization. See | http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1683.html | | Should Boost be looking at that proposal? Seems to me we should. | | If we like it, we can support their proposal and perhaps do an independent | implementation for Boost. If we think it needs changes, the sooner those | get communicated to Dinkumware and/or the LWG, the better. I don't like that std::basic_string is hardcoded in the interface. I talked briefly with Bill about it in Redmond. I would rather see a more complicated coverter class and then an easy function interface on top of that, maybe like vector<char> bytes; convert_to_bytes<utf8_enc>( L"foo", bytes ); vector<wchar_t> wides; convert_to_wides<utf8_enc>( bytes, wides ); or something. -Thorsten