Re: What happened to Boost.Nowide?

From: Yakov Galka (ybungalobill_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-11-07 02:39:43

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 2:11 AM Alexander Grund via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Does anyone know what the status of Boost.Nowide is? It seems the
> filestream parts are now incorporated into Boost.FileSystem. So it seems
> only cin/cout/cerr, the args wrapper and the C-functions (fopen, ...)
> are missing. Especially the first 2 are very useful in writing
> cross-platform code.
>

I don't know the status of Boost.Nowide. However, it's usefulness has
diminished with the introduction of UTF-8 codepage support in Windows 10 in
May this year. See
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/globalizing/use-utf8-code-page
.

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Yakov Galka
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