Re: [boost] Boost.Locale (was Re: [SQL-Connectivity] Is Boost interested in CppDB?)

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Locale (was Re: [SQL-Connectivity] Is Boost interested in CppDB?)
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-14 18:13:03

On 14/12/2010 22:05, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 2:27 PM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
>> On 14/12/2010 16:08, Eric Niebler wrote:
>>> On 12/14/2010 9:53 AM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
>>>> +1 -- if there was a library that did easy conversion from
>>>> std::wstring (usually the default in Windows now) to proper UTF-8
>>>> encoded std::string in Boost that would be *awesome*. I can totally
>>>> use that library in cpp-netlib too. ;)
>>>
>>> Please, no. std::string is not an appropriate holder for a UTF-8 string.
>>> It encourages random-access mutation of any byte in a UTF-8 sequence,
>>> pretty much guaranteeing data corruption.
>>>
>>
>> It is, however, an appropriate holder for the *data* of a UTF-8 string.
>
> Does not C++0x define character types for Unicode characters ? Would not
> a basic_string<utf8> ( or whatever it is called ) character type be a
> better choice than basic_string<char> if that is the case, if the former
> existed ?

While C++0x introduces char16_t and char32_t, meant for UTF-16 and 
UTF-32 respectively, there is no special character type dedicated to UTF-8.