Re: [boost] Unicode and filesystem

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-14 16:04:07

Adrian Michel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to use some of the functionality in boost::filesystem in a
> Windows app but could not find a way to create a path object from a Unicode
> string. The constructors accept const char*, std::string but no const
> wchar*. Is there any other way I could use Unicode for file/path names?

wchar * != unicode.

Just using wchar_t is by far not enough to expect unicode support.
You generally need to know what encoding a string is in. In particular,
some encodings such as utf-8 don't even have a fixed-width representation.

You really need a unicode library to deal with these issues. A unicode-enabled
path manipulation library would have to depend on it. Of course, one could
provide a templates based interface, where you plug in the unicode support
in terms of string and trait type parameters.

Regards,
                Stefan