Re: [boost] [General] Always treat std::strings as UTF-8

[Patrick Horgan]

First, how annoying that that text mode on windows is called ANSI. It has nothing to do with ANSI.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964658.aspx

ANSI: Acronym for the American National Standards Institute. The term "ANSI" as used to signify Windows code pages is a historical reference, but is nowadays a misnomer that continues to persist in the Windows community. The source of this comes from the fact that the Windows code page 1252 was originally based on an ANSI draft-which became International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standard 8859-1. "ANSI applications" are usually a reference to non-Unicode or code page-based applications.

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