[boost] Re: Re: Boost Unicode support ideas

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-14 03:15:22

Pavol Droba wrote:

>> The new string algorithms to_upper etc do support locales.
>> 
> 
> They do, however, the algorithm only operates on per-character basis. This
> discussion about the unicode goes far beyond what is possible to achieve
> by using std locales.
> 
> Anyway, if there will be a proper unicode support provided in boost, I see
> no problem with the adaptation of string algorithms to make use of it.

Hmm... shouldn't it be the other way around? That is boost::unicode_string
should provide some iterators which can be passed to the string_algo
library, and guarantee that it works OK.

- Volodya