Rogier van Dalen wrote:
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:02:34 -0700, Eric Niebler <eric@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
No fair bringing religion into this. ;-) I'll repeat what I said before -- this would be an unfortunate design, and you'll hear about it from your users. If you force people to do their bit twiddling in vector<char*_t>, then you impose an extra allocation and a copy to get it into a unicode::string, and most people won't bother.
What frequent use cases do you see where people will want to change bits rather than work with characters?
utf8_string str; str.reserve(some_big_number); ifstream file("utf8.txt"); istreambuf_iterator<char8_t> begin(file), end; std::copy( begin, end, back_inserter(str) ); This can't throw if you want people to use your string class. -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com