On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Matus Chochlik <chochlik@gmail.com> wrote:
and creating a new string class/wrapper for UTF-8 that nobody uses,
lol - well no one is going to use it until it exists.
Is it necessary to explain that I did not mean it that way. What I meant that we can hardly expect that everybody will adopt utf8_t when Boost introduces it. As a consequence everybody will remain with std::string and ANSI encodings.
I think maybe you underestimate our influence. It won't be immediate, but I believe we *could* produce the new lingua franca and get it widely-adopted.
I didn't mean to say that Boost does not have the influence to do that. It easily could. I think that it should instead use its influence in the C++ world to help phasing out the ANSI encodings in favor of UTF-8 without sacrificing a 'flagship-class' like std::string and introducing a new one into the already crowded club of string handling classes. Regards Matus