Re: [boost] [general] What will string handling in C++ look likeinthe future [was Always treat ... ]

Alexander Lamaison wrote:

I was under the impression that Linux changed from interpreting char* as being in a multitude of different encodings to being in UTF-8 by default.

Well, it probably depends on what part of Linux we're talking to, but most of the functions do not interpret char* as being in any encoding, neither do they have a default. They just treat it as a byte sequence.