Hi all, A while ago I gave some previews of my Unicode String Adapter library to the boost community but I didn't receive much feedback. Now that GSoC is ending I'd like you all to take a look at my project again and provide feedback on the usefulness of the library. Following are the links to my project repository and documentation: GitHub repository: https://github.com/crf00/boost.ustr Documentation: http://crf.scriptmatrix.net/ustr/index.html Recently there was some threads in the mailing list mentioning about Unicode issues and forcing the use of UTF-8 encoding in std::string again. I feel certain that few of the key people involving in the debates should have at least read my project proposal before and understand what Boost.Ustr was trying to achieve, however it seems like my approach is not much favored by anyone. So here I'd also like to know from these people why my approach on using Unicode string adapter is not the best way to solve the Unicode problem in C++. I understand that the requirement to alter existing APIs might be the biggest barrier to make Boost.Ustr adopted by everyone, but I think here is the key question: if you have the chance to go back in time and restart your project from scratch, are you willing to use Boost.Ustr in your library APIs and do you think that it could have solved the Unicode problems you're having right now? Thanks. Best Regards, Soares Chen