Re: [Boost-users] Filesystem, serialization, character encoding and portable software

From: Daniel Krügler (dsp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-13 07:58:30

Robert Ramey wrote:
> the wide character xml archives use UTF8.
> 
> the narrow character xml archives use the currently set locale.
> 
> Robert Ramey

Sorry for asking offhand:

What is the reasoning behind this different behaviour? I would have
expected that in both cases UTF-8 would have been used assuming that
the xml-encoding is described as UTF-8. But I probably have overlooked
something very basic?

Thanks for your patience and

Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel