At 10:32 PM +1000 8/23/06, Martin Slater wrote: I wrote:
[ Note that this is not a rejection of Unicode, but rather a separation of the error being detected and thrown and the creation of an error message ]
Absolutely agree with this but one use case for unicode is attaching the possibly unicode filename of a failing file operation.
Yes, that's a good case. But, you've already got some object/data structure that describes the file, right? [ A path, or something ] Attach _that_ to the exception, and Bob's your uncle. Personally, I think that the ".what ()" field in the exception is an anachronism. No one is going to show that string to end users. -- -- Marshall Marshall Clow Idio Software <mailto:marshall@idio.com> It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.