Re: [program_options] good work
Hi list,
Thanks for your encouragement! I, too, hope that the library will be added to CVS soon -- the only issue that was specifically requested as needed before inclusion is Unicode support. I've already made up my mind how to best add it, but it might take a couple of weeks to discuss the approach and really implement it.
At this point I would like to state a question I have since some time. How is a boost library supposed to implement unicode support? There seems to be no Unicode support in the whole STL standard and not in boost either, except for the wide character support which as far as I know is limited to UCS-2 (or does it allow UCS-4?) Anyway, with linux, the most common unicode system is UTF-8. And I can seem to find any library or functionality in any way to support this (world-wide) accepted approach. Now, I wouldn't like to support the UTF-8 idea but it is impossible for a unix/linux developer to do something meaningful withou doing it some unicode way. So, what is the boost approach to undicode? Thanks and regards ... Hagen M.
In article <49300.192.168.1.101.1080241182.squirrel@lan.wheel>, "Hagen Moebius" <mailing-lists@starschiffchen.de> wrote:
At this point I would like to state a question I have since some time. How is a boost library supposed to implement unicode support? There seems to be no Unicode support in the whole STL standard and not in boost either, except for the wide character support which as far as I know is limited to UCS-2 (or does it allow UCS-4?) Anyway, with linux, the most common unicode system is UTF-8. And I can seem to find any library or functionality in any way to support this (world-wide) accepted approach.
There isn't a good way that I am aware of. I have some ideas floating around in my head for Unicode classes that I would submit to boost once there is something worth submitting, but I am woefully short on free time nowadays, and Unicode handling beyond the simple-minded UTF-8 approach has not come up in my work with sufficient urgency that I could justify doing it in my work time yet. So, either it will, and I will start working on a proposal and submit it to boost, or someone will beat me to it, but either way you mostly lose right now, AFAIK. meeroh -- If this message helped you, consider buying an item from my wish list: <http://web.meeroh.org/wishlist>
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