Re: [boost] status of Boost Unicode library/enhancements ?

Chris Pirazzi wrote :

And of course it is possible today to store UTF-16 data in a std::wstring

Not really. std::wstring can only be used for UCS-2 or UCS-4/UTF-32. (UCS-2 is UTF-16 without surrogate pairs, limiting the range of representable Unicode characters to 0-65535)

ICU is probably sufficient, but I thought it might be nice to use something that fits in with the rest of boost and STL more nicely.

Have you tried Glib::ustring from glibmm ? It is an utf-8 implementation with the same interface as std::string. It should work with STL algorithms and the like.