On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:13:04 +0100, Matus Chochlik wrote:
I do not believe that UTF-8 is the way to go. In fact I know it is not, except perhaps for the very near future for some programmers ( Linux advocates ).
:-) Just for the record, I'm not a Linux advocate any more then I'm a Windows advocate. I use both .. I'm writing this on a windows machine. What I would like is the whole encoding madness/dysfunction (including but not limited to the dual TCHAR/whateverchar-based interfaces) to stop. Everywhere.
Even if I bought the UTF-8ed-Boost idea, what would we do about the STL implementation on Windows which expects local-codepage narrow strings? Are we hoping MS etc. change these to match? Because otherwise we'll be converting between narrow encodings for the rest of eternity. Alex -- Easy SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org)