On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:15:22PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
Pavol Droba wrote:
The new string algorithms to_upper etc do support locales.
They do, however, the algorithm only operates on per-character basis. This discussion about the unicode goes far beyond what is possible to achieve by using std locales.
Anyway, if there will be a proper unicode support provided in boost, I see no problem with the adaptation of string algorithms to make use of it.
Hmm... shouldn't it be the other way around? That is boost::unicode_string should provide some iterators which can be passed to the string_algo library, and guarantee that it works OK.
AFAIK there is no unicode_string there so far. So the string_algo lib works with the stuff, that is available. i.e. std containers (with fixed-width characters) and locales. I can imagine a support for unicode string. If it would be well designed, many string algorithms can work almost out-of-box. Regards, Pavol