15 Nov
2012
15 Nov
'12
6:05 p.m.
Yakov Galka <ybungalobill@gmail.com> writes:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Alex Perry <Alex.Perry@smartlogic.com>wrote:
My problem with this is that its confusing ...
What is confusing? Defining a uniform interface is confusing?
Every C++ runtime implementation, every C++ standard library implementation and other Boost libraries on Windows assume that 8-bit char strings are encoded using the local ANSI codepage. While this is not ideal, it is at least consistent. The confusion arives from unilaterally changing one library to interpret 8-bit strings differently. Alex