Re: [boost] New file uploaded to boost

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-26 07:33:24

I have uploaded a file containing code conversion facets for UTF8 and UCS2 -- 
files Daryle uploaded don't address this aspect. 
See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/codecvt.zip

Remarks:

- UCS2 should be big-endian, but little-endian is also common. How 
little-endian can be handled? Would it be possible to guess what encoding a 
file uses by looking at leading 0xFFFE and store that information in 
conversion state. Any hidden problems here?

- Seems like it's planned to have unicode support via some typedefs and 
specializations. It find that having all the functionality available via 
whar_t on systems where it's reasonably defined would be nice. Of cause, it 
won't be portable, but wchar_t, wstring, wifsstream &c, are just more 
familiar to most persons.

-- 
Regards,
Vladimir