Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: Oughtn't filesystem::path acc ept the "*" and"?" wildcards?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-23 19:22:33

At 02:51 PM 4/23/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
 >"Edward Diener" <eddielee_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> I still feel that a fixed width Unicode encoding has to be an advance
 >over
 >> variable width encodings like MBCS for any character set.
 >
 >I guess that depends on how important random access over the
 >characters of a string is to you.  To me, it seems like an edge case.

It really doesn't matter what we think - both fixed-width and 
variable-width encodings are well established, and not going to go away 
anytime soon. So a filesystem library is going to have to cope with both 
fixed and variable width external encodings of filenames.

--Beman