Hi, I'm reading the documentation and I must say it's very clear and easy to understand (at least for someone who did follow the recent discussions about the subject on this mailing list). Minor error : missing '>' in http://crf.scriptmatrix.net/ustr/ustr/unicode_string_adapter.html (String Concatenation) unicode_string_adapter< std::vector< char16_t > second_string = USTR("你好"); Also, in the same section, maybe adding informations about potential stream operators (I don't see them so far) might help? if you have the chance
to go back in time and restart your project from scratch, are you willing to use Boost.Ustr in your library APIs and do you think that it could have solved the Unicode problems you're having right now?
From the documentation, that library seems to solve the problem as by several boost authors. However, real-world usage and experimentation would help figuring out if there is any important flaw in the design.
As a boost user, I find it interesting even for my non-library projects, but I wouldn't expect all boost libraries to expose encoded strings in their interfaces. Maybe just Boost.Locale and Boost.FileSystem. If I can find time in the coming weeks, I'll try to use it in a prototype and provide feedbacks. Joël Lamotte