On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Yakov Galka <ybungalobill@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello again,
My previous mail was ignored by the community, and I would like to know why. If it wasn't clear, I want to hear your opinion on the topic.
If there is a disagreement, I would like to know what is the reason for the disagreement. If there are problems in the proposal, perhaps we can fix them and come to a solution accepted by all.
If you agree in principle but just don't have the resources for this work, I'm going to do this work (or part of it). I just don't want to waste my time on something that is certainly going to be rejected.
The default encoding for narrow and wide characters char and wchar_t in Boost libraries mirrors the default encoding for these characters in C++ and the standard library, which is in turn mirroring the default encoding supplied by various operating systems. It is as simple as that. So if you want a change, convince these folks to change their default encoding, and give users a chance to adjust to that change. Until that happens, you might get a more positive response from the maintainers of Boost libraries if you figured out a way for users to globally change the assumed default narrow encoding from the system encoding to encoding X, where X may well be UTF-8 but also might be something else, such as some of the encodings widely used in Asia. Just my personal opinion, --Beman