Paul Miller wrote:
I just started using boost recently and it seems excellent so far.
One of the first classes I started using is filesystem::path, with the intention to use it portably on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
On Windows and OS X, you can work with paths in Unicode. Presumably Linux still works with multi-byte characters.
Is there progres toward a wchar_t-aware path?
I don't know if Mr. Dawes will include such an addition in a future version of filesystem, but I do know that urging that C++ standard libraries add wide character filenames and paths where appropriate, on comp.std.c++, has met with a wall of resistance in the past. There seems to be the idea there that just because Windows supports wide character filenames and directories is no reason to have it supported in the C++ standard libraries. Given that the C++ standard committee is so intent on not supporting wide character filenames, I certainly wouldn't fault Mr. Dawes for not doing so. However if he investigates the issue and decides to do it, or if anyone in Boost decides to do work on it, maybe they can pass on their knowledge of its effectiveness and implementation to the C++ standard committee. I am not trying to start another discussion of this issue here on Boost, having spent enough fruitless time in the past arguing for wide character filenames on comp.std.c++, but I thought at least clarifying why boost::filesystem may not support it might be helpful to you.