On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:04 PM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
on Thu Feb 05 2009, frederic.bron-AT-alcan.com wrote:
I've decided not to attempt support for Cygwin in the next version of Boost.Filesystem.
I have posted your comments on the cygwin mailing list and post the answer below. It says that cygwin is not using the GNU C library but newlib which does not have the full set of wide character functions. Any idea how to help newlib get the missing functions?
Implement them?
Maybe it's too facile an answer, but I can't think of anything else...
It seems to me that it is very difficult to implement complete wide character support. The thing is, all that boost::filesystem needs is std::wstring (right?), and std::wstring needs only a handful of wide character functions. That subset should be trivial to implement, and then it's just a matter of whether the rest of the standard library implementation can be configured to enable std::wstring only. I still wish filesystem used utf-8 instead but oh well. :) Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode