[boost] Re: [Unicode strings] We're off

Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:

I think it would be desireble to have the dynamic class even when not having such iostream functionality. Sometimes we dont know which utf we are going to use, even when needing to read it from somewhere else or making it through some low-level way. But having iostreams read and write unicode would be awesome. Maybe having somekind of stringstream would be great too, but I think it would be much more work than it was planned.

Why should such a string class stop at unicode? Wouldn't it be a good idea to support other encodings? It might be better to have such a class as part of a separate library, probably with 'pluggable' encodings, which would include unicode.