At 09:49 AM 2/16/2004, Jeff Garland wrote:
... Also, I believe filesystem::path could and should be refactored to support wide strings on platforms that provide this capability. Obviously using this interface would limit portability...
My intent for filesystem::wpath (note the "w") is that it should work whenever possible on operating systems which use char as the external representation type. There would certainly be some limitations; the external encoding would have to be one that did not generate invalid names. For example, wpath on Linux would presumably use UTF-8 as the default external encoding, so that should work just fine. On Windows, the wpath internal and O/S external encoding are the same, so the same code would work on both Windows and Linux, and probably quite a few other O/S's too. --Beman