David Abrahams wrote:
Miro Jurisic <macdev@meeroh.org> writes:
I don't agree with the statement that ICU "provides all or most of the Unicode support that would be desired in Boost or the C++ standard library",
Semantic details of the statement aside, I do hope somebody or somebodies tackle the problem. As has been made extra-obvious here recently, there are more issues with unicode and internationalization than most of us can grasp, and the only way I'm going to be effective with Unicode is if I have an effective library with the right abstractions.
Oh, in fact we did not even touched internationalization. It a separate nontrivial issue and, btw, while Jeremy says existing std::locale is not exactly good for Unicode, the same can be said about standard 'messages' locale facet. Since it requires integer ids for messages, I'd rather stick to GNU gettext (not to mention I was never able to figure out how to make the 'messages' facet work :-( ) - Volodya