6 Apr
2004
6 Apr
'04
10:52 a.m.
Hi Hagen,
I just wanted to express my sincere wish/hope that any achievements in this sector will become a common boost good.
That's why I'm asking for comment, rather than silently adding specific implementation. Hopefully we'll agree on something.
glib did a very good implementation of UTF-8 handling and Glibmm is a well done C++ wrapper but it lacks the "standardness". Something like boost::ustring COULD bring a widely accepted UTF-8 aware unicode string to C++ programmers. A somewhat relieving thought.
I am not exactly sure if UTF-8 or UCS-4 is better as universal solution, but some solution is surely needed.
Or did I miss something? Is something like this part of boost already?
Nope :-( Even UTF-8 encoder is not in boost yet. - Volodya