As Artyom said you can imbue whatever locale you want to specify the conversion form narrow to wide strings. It will make almost all the conversions transparent, except that the path will still be stored as UTF-16 on windows. Unfortunately it boils to the interface whence you can get a c_str() to a UTF-16 string only. You may want to revert to Boost.Filesystem.v2 (afaik removed completely in 1.48 so you'll need to merge from the old release), it is better designed in the sense that it has a templatized basic_path that allows you to store utf-8 encoding internally (once you imbue the correct locale) and convert to UTF-16 on demand. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:33, Artyom Beilis <artyomtnk@yahoo.com> wrote:
When you are using Boost.FileSystem.v3 you can imbue a locale with UTF-8 codecvt facet globally using.
boost::path::imbue()
Note path::imbue is static member function.
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From: Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski@gmail.com> To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:15 AM Subject: [boost] boost filesystem path as utf-8?
Hello,
I understand that the path class .native() member function's return type differs depending on the platform (wstring on windows, for example.) Is there a way to get the path as a utf-8 string regardless of the platform? Likewise, is there a way to construct a path object from a utf-8 string regardless of the platform?
Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode
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