Re: [boost] Re: Re: New design proposal for boost::filesystem

From: Patrick Bennett (patrick.bennett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-22 21:44:51

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:

>"Patrick Bennett" <patrick.bennett_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>news:4128FA68.3000108_at_inin.com...
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>>The fact that boost::filesystem has zero support for
>>internationalization kills it for me.
>>Ideally, it would just use UTF-8 for everything.
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>wpath support seems to be in the works. See
>http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg60423.php.
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What is described in that posting wouldn't be correct for Windows.  
Win32 is UCS-2 natively, but having filesystem generically expect 
wchar_t* UCS-2 strings for all api's on Windows and char* UTF-8 strings 
on Linux isn't acceptable.
(at least that's how I interpreted the post - since it mentioned using 
the same external representation as the internal representation).
It should be char* (and std::string) UTF-8 strings throughout for all 
platforms - passing as-is for platforms like Linux, and converting 
to/from UCS-2 on Windows.  I can't speak for other platforms as I'm most 
familiar with Windows and Linux.

Patrick Bennett