Hi list,
Thanks for your encouragement! I, too, hope that the library will be added to CVS soon -- the only issue that was specifically requested as needed before inclusion is Unicode support. I've already made up my mind how to best add it, but it might take a couple of weeks to discuss the approach and really implement it.
At this point I would like to state a question I have since some time. How is a boost library supposed to implement unicode support? There seems to be no Unicode support in the whole STL standard and not in boost either, except for the wide character support which as far as I know is limited to UCS-2 (or does it allow UCS-4?) Anyway, with linux, the most common unicode system is UTF-8. And I can seem to find any library or functionality in any way to support this (world-wide) accepted approach. Now, I wouldn't like to support the UTF-8 idea but it is impossible for a unix/linux developer to do something meaningful withou doing it some unicode way. So, what is the boost approach to undicode? Thanks and regards ... Hagen M.