Re: [boost] Strings tagged with their character set

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-27 17:26:22

James Porter wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   
>> That has nothing to do with what basic_string<wchar_t> is, though,
>> because that state is to be used when converting the string to an
>> external encoding.
>>     
>
>
> Well, clearly that state needs to know what the internal encoding is in the
> first place,
No, why? What difference does it make to the shift state of Shift-JIS
whether you convert to this encoding from UTF-8 or UTF-16?

Sebastian Redl