Re: [boost] [General] Always treat std::strings as UTF-8

John B. Turpish wrote:

By the way, I disagree with Peter's assessment that, "you rarely, if ever, need to access the Nth character," but I will gladly cede that this depends on your problem domain.

It obviously depends on the problem domain :-) but, when talking about Unicode, you can't reliably access the Nth character, in general, even with UCS-32. (As far as I know.)