________________________________ From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org on behalf of Chad Nelson Sent: Thu 3/17/2011 6:02 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] GSoC Proposal Preparation For Encoding Awared String On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:36:31 -0500 Andrew Sutton <asutton.list@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] Was there any consensus on why std::string could or could not be parameterized with UTF-specific character traits? That seems, on the surface, like a possible solution. I was following the discussions but not as closely as others :)
I believe I mentioned trying it, and Artyom responded with some well-thought-out reasons why it wouldn't work, but I can't find the message now.
I think I saw some discussion of this in regards to Glib::ustring, in glibmm. http://library.gnome.org/devel/glibmm/2.24/classGlib_1_1ustring.html#_detail... Matt