Re: [boost] Re: Unicode in C++; Was: New file uploaded to boost

From: Matt Austern (austern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-26 12:31:58

dietmar_kuehl_at_[hidden] wrote:

> I disagree and actually I think that it makes sense to even provide
> XML parsing and processing facilities on ASCII characters: The
> processor would have two modes, a fast one using ASCII only files
> and a conforming, slower one using Unicode characters. The XML
> specification requires that the latter works but doesn't object
> to the former one.

In practice I find that I never use ASCII; I use iso-8859-1 instead,
which is a better match for HTML.  (Also a better match for the LWG
issues list.  It helps to be able to write your name.)

                        --Matt