19 Jan
2011
19 Jan
'11
8:25 p.m.
Dave Abrahams wrote:
At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:58:13 -0500, Edward Diener wrote:
I do not think that shoving UTF-8 down everybody's throats is the best solution even now, I think a good set of classes to convert between encoding standards is much better.
Can we please tone down the rhetoric here?
It's OK. :-) Either way, not shoving _something_ down everybody's throats is not an option if you need to create a library that talks to the OS. You have to pick some type, and if you pick string or char*, you have to make a decision how to interpret it.