Hi all, I would like to inform you all that the development repository for Boost Unicode String Adapter (now I call Boost.Ustr) is now available at GitHub: https://github.com/crf00/boost.ustr. I have been working closely with my mentor Chad Nelson on the design of the library, and now I'd like to show it to the community to gather some feedback before proceeding further on. Currently the main class, unicode_string_adapter, provides a uniform way for code point access from various string containers without having to concern about the underlying encoding and code units. unicode_string_adapter will not handle higher level Unicode processing tasks such as abstract characters, as I plan to leave the functionality to another class called unicode_abstract_character which I will build later. At the moment my library only works under GCC with C++0x enabled, as I was focusing on the design issues first. I also understand that I have not adopted the Boost way of building the project. While I am now going to spend more time on fixing these issues, I hope that this discussion can have more focus on the design issues instead. Feel free to let me know any potential issues on the class design so that I can fix it before it is too late. Thank you! cheers, Soares Chen