"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:6.0.3.0.2.20041023085844.028a7018@mailhost.esva.net...
At 07:08 AM 10/23/2004, Andy Little wrote:
The other problem that immediately springs to my mind is , how do I
compose
a unicode string in my C++ source code. I really dont want to be dealing with some unicode_character<TheEncode>(0x78,99,'c',-1) ; style.
The C TR provides additional string literals and character constants. See below.
--Beman
5.1 String literals and character constants notations
[snip detail] Ok I understand that long term the C/C++ language should support Unicode and I am all in favour. The other question is whether there is a need for a C++ library which provides definitive encodings ( Not restricted to Unicode) that can be implemented in the Current C++ language. I could certainly make use of it today. I would assume that such a library would be extremely useful in deciding how to implement language support in C++. I would guess that to be generic the characters could use named indirection in some cases, similar to the html scheme... typedef typename default_charset<GUI>:: type charset_type; encoded_string<charset_type> str = "length " ; str += charset_type::micro ; // much nicer ... str += "m"; etc regards Andy Little