RE: [boost] Unicode support

From: Yitzhak Sapir (yitzhaks_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-07 06:45:58

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Siek [mailto:jsiek_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 4:15 AM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] Unicode support
> 
> I would love to see unicode support in boost and or the C++ 
> Standard. It's
> just a matter of someone volunteering to put the time in... 
> perhaps people
> from the ICU or elsewhere could be approached an encouraged to propose
> their libraries to boost.

I had seen some conversion facets in the boost files area.  What are those?

Also, it's my understanding (after having written my own Unicode conversion facet) that there is no way to portably write conversion facets, although it's possible to get close.  I had written about this in comp.lang.c++.moderated: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=23be9fc5.0202270746.436ac5b9%40posting.google.com&output=gplain  I really hope these issues are solved somehow.  It would be wonderful to be able to write compression or encryption conversion facets.