On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:04:26 -0400, Beman Dawes wrote:
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Alexander Lamaison <awl03@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:07:34 -0400, Beman Dawes wrote:
* Any other comments or suggestions?
Some code I have wraps a SFTP library that returns paths as UTF-8 strings. These need to be converted to the local code page before displaying to the user. My original plan was to typedef basic_path with a traits class of my own that I could imbue with a specific locale to do the conversion.
With FSv3 the only way to do this seems to be path::imbue() which imbue *all* paths, globally. Or am I missing something?
Yep, there is another way. First convert the UTF-8 string to a UTF-16 string using software of your choice. Then construct a boost::filesystem::path with the UTF-16 string as an argument. Alternately, assign the UTF-16 string to a boost::filesystem::path.
If I contruct a path directly using a UTF-8 char string, will the UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion not be taken care of by codecvt? Alex -- SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org)