[boost] Re: Boost Unicode support ideas

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-13 20:37:29

"Jeremy Maitin-Shepard" <jbms_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:87ptabsq2h.fsf_at_jbms.ath.cx...
> "John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:
[snip]
> > 5) Begin to add locale support - a big job, probably a few facets at a
> > time.
>
> The issue is that, despite what you say, most or all of the standard
> library facets are not suitable for use with Unicode strings.  For
> instance, the character classification and toupper-like operations need
> not be tied to a locale.

The new string algorithms to_upper etc do support locales.

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Thorsten