On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:37:29AM +1000, Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
"Jeremy Maitin-Shepard" <jbms@attbi.com> wrote in message news:87ptabsq2h.fsf@jbms.ath.cx...
"John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> writes: [snip]
5) Begin to add locale support - a big job, probably a few facets at a time.
The issue is that, despite what you say, most or all of the standard library facets are not suitable for use with Unicode strings. For instance, the character classification and toupper-like operations need not be tied to a locale.
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. Regards, Pavol