Re: What happened to Boost.Nowide?

From: Alexander Grund (alexander.grund_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-11-11 12:18:58

Am 07.11.19 um 03:39 schrieb Yakov Galka:
> Â 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.

I just noticed that it is very unfortunate, that this didn't happen 3 
years (or so) ago. Now not only `boost::filesystem::path` is using 
`wchar` but also the C++17 `std::filesystem::path` does so. So we now 
have costly conversions and wasting half the space on windows for no gain :/