15 Dec
2010
15 Dec
'10
6:01 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> wrote:
vector<char> would be a suitable storage container for the raw data. basic_string<char> implies string semantics.
But it also implies string *optimizations* (small string optimization, anyone?) As an *implementation detail* of some other Unicode container jobbie, basic_string makes sense. It might even make sense to expose the raw basic_string (with warnings), just for interoperability reasons. I'm sure there are lots of interfaces out there that already deal with utf-8 in basic_strings. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com