Re: [Boost-announce] [Boost-users] Interest in a Unicode library for Boost?

From: Zach Laine (whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-10-30 15:48:51

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 7:59 AM Klaim - Joël Lamotte <mjklaim_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 03:11, Zach Laine via Boost-users <
> boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> About 14 months ago I posted the same thing.  There was significant work
>> that needed to be done to Boost.Text (the proposed library), and I was a
>> bit burned out.
>>
>> Now I've managed to make the necessary changes, and I feel the library is
>> ready for review, if there is interest.
>>
>> This library, in part, is something I want to standardize.
>>
>> [snip]
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>>
> (as a power user)
> I would be interested to have such library in Boost and already had plan
> to try Boost.Text in my next C++ project with text.
>
> I am following the discussions happening in SG16 and understand that there
> are some differences with the parts that will be proposed for
> standardisation (as ThePHD explains in his talk).
> Though honestly both approaches seems to solve my problems so I'm open to
> trying both. If boost.text is stable today, I'm happy to use it (at least
> to replace ICU and have a proper unicode text type).
>

Yes, JeanHeyd and I started with very different approaches, but we're
converging somewhat.

Zach