Re: [boost] Re: Boost Unicode support ideas

From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard (jbms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-14 14:45:31

Anthony Williams <anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> What I am saying is that operations such as "convert to uppercase" on
>> Unicode strings are locale-independent, and thus such operations need not
>> and should not be part of the locale interface.

> In which case you are wrong.

Hmm, it seems that as you say there are a few cases where locale affects
properties/transformations, and so those facilities should be tied to
the locale.  Nonetheless, it does not appear that the existing ctype
facet is suitable for Unicode.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard