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

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-16 19:40:59

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:38:47 -0500, Beman Dawes wrote
> At 09:49 AM 2/16/2004, Jeff Garland wrote:
>  >Also, I believe filesystem::path could and should be refactored to 
> support
>  >wide strings on platforms that provide this capability.  Obviously 
> using >this interface would limit portability...
> 
> My intent for filesystem::wpath (note the "w") is that it should 
> work whenever possible on operating systems which use char as the 
> external representation type. There would certainly be some 
> limitations; the external encoding would have to be one that did not 
> generate invalid names.
> 
> For example, wpath on Linux would presumably use UTF-8 as the 
> default external encoding, so that should work just fine. On Windows,
>  the wpath internal and O/S external encoding are the same, so the 
> same code would work on both Windows and Linux, and probably quite a 
> few other O/S's too.

Sounds like a solid plan to me :-)

Jeff