----Original Message---- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Aristid Breitkreuz Sent: 17 September 2006 02:08 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Work that has been done on Unicode

Am Samstag, den 16.09.2006, 19:55 +0200 schrieb loufoque:

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Aristid Breitkreuz wrote : [snip]

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That's fine. Do you have plans on which Unicode encoding to use internally?

UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 would all be available for implementations, and each one would be able to take or give the other ones for input/output.

I guess that every single supported type is extra complexity, right? Would not UTF-8 (for brevity and compatibility) and UTF-32 (because it might be better for some algorithms) suffice?

Some important platforms use UTF-16 as the system string type (and it isn't even really Microsoft's fault - Unicode /was/ 16 bit when they started on Windows NT). -- Martin Bonner Martin.Bonner@Pitechnology.com Pi Technology, Milton Hall, Ely Road, Milton, Cambridge, CB4 6WZ, ENGLAND Tel: +44 (0)1223 203894