[boost] status of wchar_t support in filesystem::path?

From: Paul Miller (paul_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-15 12:19:33

I just started using boost recently and it seems excellent so far.

One of the first classes I started using is filesystem::path, with the 
intention to use it portably on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

On Windows and OS X, you can work with paths in Unicode. Presumably 
Linux still works with multi-byte characters.

Is there progres toward a wchar_t-aware path?

Is there an existing strategy for storing my Unicode Windows/Mac paths 
as UTF-8 with the existing path? I notice the existing posix checks 
would fail horribly in this case. Is a UTF-8 checker in order?