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Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Review of Nowide (Unicode) starts today
From: Frédéric Bron (frederic.bron_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-16 09:42:48


> And you can safely concatenate two different strings and valid file will be
> created. Even if dir is in ISO 8859-1 and file in UTF-8. The file will be
> valid even if not representable in any encoding.

but it seems to me that in this case, what I need is UTF-8->ISO 8859-1
conversion of the file name before concatenation with the directory.
Otherwise, OK I will get a file because the system just ask for narrow
string but its name will be wrong in the OS user interface.

Frédéric


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