There will be a mini-review of Boost.Filesystem library's proposed i18n changes from today, Monday, June 27th, until Wednesday, July 6th. A ZIP file which can be unzipped into a regular Boost directory tree is available at http://www.esva.net/~beman/i18n/i18n.zip If you would like to read the documentation online, see http://www.esva.net/~beman/i18n/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm If you are only interested in changes relative to the current library, see http://www.esva.net/~beman/i18n/libs/filesystem/doc/i18n.html Everything is also available from the Boost CVS on the "i18n" branch. The code has been tested a number of compilers for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. For old less compliant compilers, only narrow characters paths are supported. Since this is a major revision, a mini-review gives people a chance to comment well before the changes appear in an actual Boost release. The "i18n" changes won't be merged into the Boost CVS main trunk until after mini-review comments are addressed and Boost 1.33.0 ships, so they won't appear in a release until 1.34.0. Because this is a mini-review of an existing library, the primary focus of reviews should be on the new features and other changes. Comments on existing portions of the library are also of interest. Here are some questions you might want to answer in your review: * What is your evaluation of the design? * What is your evaluation of the implementation? * What is your evaluation of the documentation? * What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? * Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have any problems? * How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick reading? In-depth study? * Do you think that this major revision should be accepted by Boost? Be sure to say this explicitly so your other comments don't obscure your overall opinion. Thanks, --Beman PS: For a picture my workspace: http://www.esva.net/~beman/workspace.jpg :-)