Erik Wien wrote:
"Miro Jurisic" <macdev@meeroh.org> wrote in message news:macdev-
I am not sure I buy this. I think that if you want to have unchecked Unicode data, you should use a vector<char*_t>. Unicode strings have well-defined invariants with respect to canonicalization and well-formedness, and I think that the a Unicode string abstraction should enforce those invariants.
Having intermediate states that are invalid and a final state that is valid is not a feature, it's a bug. It's a silent failure that I want to know about.
Amen. ;)
No fair bringing religion into this. ;-) I'll repeat what I said before -- this would be an unfortunate design, and you'll hear about it from your users. If you force people to do their bit twiddling in vector<char*_t>, then you impose an extra allocation and a copy to get it into a unicode::string, and most people won't bother. -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com