[boost] Re: std::string <-> std::wstring conversion

Robert Ramey wrote:

Note that the implementation above is not dependent on codecvt nor on streams.

This is absolutely crucial. Imagine you have to read XML files with many thousands of strings... BTW, that's the same reason that lexical_cast isn't applicable for many real cases. Its catastrophic performance inhibits every usage whenever speed _could_ be an issue... I would like to see this conversion functions available at a more general place than the serialization library. But probably there is much more to do to improve internationalization support than only providing string/wstring conversion ;) Stefan