[boost] Re: Any interest in adding unicode support to boost?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Bennett" <patrick.bennett@inin.com>

Erik, be sure to take a look at IBM's open-source ICU library: http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/

I have looked at the ICU library, and it's a very good unicode implementation, but the goal of my project will be to create a library that is in a form that could be standardized in boost, and from what I have seen/read, ICU is not really suited for that. ICU's errorhandling (errorcodes instead of exceptions), naming convention etc. are some problems. If the ICU licence is boost compatible, it would be possible to base an implementation on ICU however, but that will be determined if the project is approved by my college.