Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
"Patrick Bennett" <patrick.bennett@inin.com> wrote in message news:4128FA68.3000108@inin.com...
The fact that boost::filesystem has zero support for internationalization kills it for me. Ideally, it would just use UTF-8 for everything.
wpath support seems to be in the works. See http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg60423.php.
What is described in that posting wouldn't be correct for Windows. Win32 is UCS-2 natively, but having filesystem generically expect wchar_t* UCS-2 strings for all api's on Windows and char* UTF-8 strings on Linux isn't acceptable. (at least that's how I interpreted the post - since it mentioned using the same external representation as the internal representation). It should be char* (and std::string) UTF-8 strings throughout for all platforms - passing as-is for platforms like Linux, and converting to/from UCS-2 on Windows. I can't speak for other platforms as I'm most familiar with Windows and Linux. Patrick Bennett