From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Matus Chochlik <chochlik@gmail.com> wrote:
and creating a new string class/wrapper for UTF-8 that nobody uses,
lol - well no one is going to use it until it exists.
Is it necessary to explain that I did not mean it that way. What I meant that we can hardly expect that everybody will adopt utf8_t when Boost introduces it. As a consequence everybody will remain with std::string and ANSI encodings.
I think maybe you underestimate our influence. It won't be immediate, but I believe we *could* produce the new lingua franca and get it widely-adopted.
I think you little bit overestimate Boost power :-) There are lots of "Unicode" strings: - QString, - gtkmm::ustring, - icu::UnicodeString - wxString But finally the only 1 string exists anywhere - std::string. So maybe just stick with and and just to work on how we are using it. Artyom