on Thu Aug 11 2011, Artyom Beilis <artyomtnk-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Daniel James <dnljms@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc] Request Feedback for Boost.Ustr Unicode String Adapter
On 11 August 2011 12:03, Artyom Beilis <artyomtnk@yahoo.com> wrote:
The problem is policy the problem is Boost just can't decide once and forever that std::string is UTF-8...
Even if there was a consensus within boost, that isn't feasible. We don't own std::string, so we don't have a say in what it represents.
std::string represents a sequence of "char" objects that happens to be useful for text processing. It can represent a text in any encoding.
The question is how we treat this sequence... And this is a matter of policy and requirements of the library.
I think I agree with Artyom here. *Somebody* has to decide how that datatype will be interpreted when we receive it. Unless we refuse altogether to accept std::string in our interfaces (which sounds like a bad idea to me), why not make the decision that it's UTF-8? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com