On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Rush Manbert <rush@manbert.com> wrote:
For the record, what I had been hoping for was a suggestion of a way to do this setup at compile time, and I'm not doing the work so I don't have the sources to play with. [...] so that's what we're going to do. Unless someone (Beman?) tells me that it's not a good idea. ;-)
It is really simple to do this in compile time. The relevant lines to be changed are in windows_file_codecvt.cpp. Replace: UINT codepage = AreFileApisANSI() ? CP_ACP : CP_OEMCP; with UINT codepage = CP_UTF8; (twice). I was proposing doing this as a compile time configuration flag a long time ago. Unfortunately Beman mostly ignored me. Maybe you will have more luck. P.S. Hell, I do not understand why once a library is accepted into boost the author can just do whatever he gets onto his mind. Cheers, -- Yakov