Re: [boost] Boost.Process 0.5: Another update/potential candidatefor an official library

Alexander Lamaison wrote:

Every C++ runtime implementation, every C++ standard library implementation and other Boost libraries on Windows assume that 8-bit char strings are encoded using the local ANSI codepage.

Yes they do, and none of them work. UTF-8 is the only 8 bit encoding that works. I know that it is sometimes better, for some values of better, to be consistent and wrong, but mistakes never get fixed if everyone remains consistent and wrong.