On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Phil Endecott <spam_from_boost_dev@chezphil.org> wrote:
/* snip */ Yes, a Unicode character properties library is important to those who are writing text editors and similar applications. Perhaps Boost should have one. I have personally used the Unicode properties tables for doing "approximate matching" of e.g. accented characters with their base characters when searching. But I can do that equally well in UTF-8 as in UTF-32.
If you are all interested in other opinions, I would love for boost to have a UTF8(16/32) helper library. I use ICU for many things, but it is too bulky for the little I use of it, as well as the syntax does not match anything else I use (a rather boost inspired design my projects stay). A boost library would be wonderful. And yes, UTF8/16/32 all encode the same character set, just different levels of compressibility and searching speed.