
20 Oct
2004
20 Oct
'04
10:44 p.m.
At 08:47 AM 10/20/2004, Peter Dimov wrote:
... How can the user obtain the underlying element sequence to persist it somewhere or to pass it to an external library?
I'd like to underline this requirement. There must be the equivalent of c_str() to allow retrieval of the underlying element sequence. Alternately, if the underlying element sequence is hidden, then there would have to be a whole series of functions to get copies. utf8(), utf16(), etc. --Beman