Re: [boost] unicode support

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-04 06:34:05

Hi Damien,

Damien Fisher wrote:
> I know this has come up before, but I'd really like to see some basic
> support for Unicode/wide character encodings in boost.
> 
> While this is a really complicated issue (which I confess I understand
> very little about), I think a good start would be to only worry about
> conversions between various encodings -- I know there are a few facets
> lying around in the files section at yahoo doing just this.

You're a little bit ambiguous here.

First interpretation is that you're interested in support for
different Unicode encodings, via appropriate facets. Then
Alberto Barbati is the last person who touches this matter,
in
     news://news.gmane.org:119/aq72e4$pog$[e-mail]

I assume he's holding a lock on implementation work. Alberto,
did you get anywhere?

Second interpretation is conversion between all the 8-bit encodings
out there. E.g. from koi8-r to windows-1251. Since there's GNU
iconv already, I'd rather see a tiny wrapper over it. (GNU iconv works
on Windows, too).

- Volodya