Hi. I am in the process of planning a library for handling unicode strings in C++, and would like to probe the interest in the boost community for something like that. I read through the unicode dicussion that was up back in april, and from what I could gather there was some amount of interest, but no one felt comfortable taking on the task as of yet. I am hoping to be able to run this project as my Bachelor's Thesis in Computer Engineering (Not sure if that is the correct translation from Norwegian.) and if it gets approved by my college, myself and two other programmers will spend one semester working exclusively on this. (of course in collaboration with the boost community) At the end of that semester I hope the library (Or at least parts of it) will be in such a state it can submitted for review by boost. The library should ultimately have suppport for at least basic handling of unicode strings (in all encodings), collation of strings and other locale specific operations. The library should also be (to the extent that is possible) integrated with the standard C++ library (and boost) to get as much functionality as possible "for free". I'm here thinking of, among other things, the std::locale class and compabillity with iostreams. How these requirements are fulfilled will be determined as the project (hopefully) moves forward. I really feel the C++ language needs some form of standardized unicode support, and developing such a library within the boost community would be a very good way to ensure it fits everybody's needs the best possible way. If you have any, and I do mean ANY, thoughts on this, please do not hesitate to reply to this mail and let me know. I'm looking forward to your responses. Best regards Erik Wien - Gjøvik College (Høyskolen i Gjøvik), Norway.