On 12/14/2010 9:03 AM, Artyom wrote:
From: Edward Diener<eldiener@tropicsoft.com>
Okay. So that means people using std::wstring have to deal with converting to UTF-8 encoded std::string on their own. Sounds like a pain in Windows defaulted to use std::wstring in applications. :/
Converting between Unicode encodings should be a separate library anyway. Was there not someone working on such a cross-platform library for Boost ? What happened to it ? Was it scrapped because of possible Unicode support in C++0x ?
Accidentally (or not) there is a Boost.Locale library that I had submitted for a formal review is stuck in queue waiting for the formal review.
It supports charset conversions and much more of Unicode handling.
And accidentally (or not) it recommends using UTF-8 anywhere and not to use wide strings...
That's fine as long as you realize that it may not be the most common usage of Unicode for everybody ( such as in Windows programming ). I am looking forward to the review of Boost.Locale.