[boost] Packed Strings?

From: Mac Murrett (mmurrett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-15 12:54:11

There has been discussion on this list about 16- and 32-bit Unicode strings,
as well as the fact that they need only be an awkward 21 bits.  Has anyone
done any serious development yet on a generalized packed string (say,
boost::packed_string), one that would have the semantics of std::
basic_string, but would have special knowledge that only the first n bits of
charT were used?  Such a class would be useful for Unicode, among other
things.

Mac.