On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Peter Dimov <pdimov@pdimov.com> wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
* Is UTF-8 OK with Mac OS users as the Boost.Filesystem default?
UTF-8 is not merely a default on Mac OS X. It's _the_ encoding used by the OS.
Do you have a link for that? I spent awhile searching the Apple site, but didn't come up a direct description of how a narrow character file name is translated into a file system path. The actual on disk format is apparently UTF-16.
You can't use any other encoding and expect things to work (if you leave ASCII land).
I'm less than 100% sure of that. I see discussions indicating locale can have an impact.
At least as far as I know since I've never used a Mac. :-)
I've got one of those cute little mini Mac's, but it's in Virginia and I'm in Florida at the moment. Thanks, --Beman