From: Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.com>
Okay. So that means people using std::wstring have to deal with converting to UTF-8 encoded std::string on their own. Sounds like a pain in Windows defaulted to use std::wstring in applications. :/
Converting between Unicode encodings should be a separate library anyway. Was there not someone working on such a cross-platform library for Boost ? What happened to it ? Was it scrapped because of possible Unicode support in C++0x ?
Accidentally (or not) there is a Boost.Locale library that I had submitted for a formal review is stuck in queue waiting for the formal review. It supports charset conversions and much more of Unicode handling. And accidentally (or not) it recommends using UTF-8 anywhere and not to use wide strings... http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/boost_locale/html/tutorial.html#1c383cd30b7c29... Artyom