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

... elision by patrick For interaction with functions that require std::string, and presumably don't care about the encoding, it's convenient. Without it, using the UTF classes with such a function requires calling the std::string constructor with the element iterators. That's going to be a major need for the foreseeable future. But if utf8_string, like std::string derives from basic_string, wouldn't

On 01/20/2011 03:46 PM, Chad Nelson wrote: that just work? Patrick