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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-17 15:21:27

At 01:20 PM 2/17/2004, Walter Landry wrote:
 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
 >> Does that make sense?
 >
 >Perfect sense.  I was a bit concerned that you were going to do
 >something like convert everything to UTF-8 or treat everything as a
 >stream of bytes.

No, that was never a consideration. It would give only an illusion of 
solving the problem.

 >  It sounds like you're foisting most of the
 >responsibilities onto the programmer, which is fine with me.

I think of it as defaulting to something that is sensible for the operating 
system, but allowing the programmer to assume full responsibility if 
desired.

--Beman