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

From: Loïc Joly (loic.actarus.joly_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-23 11:34:34

Patrick Bennett wrote:

> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>
>> Patrick Bennett wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Isn't it abusive to force utf-8 into a std::string ? 
>
>
> Abuse is a relative term here.  ;)
>
>> While it is technically
>> possible the semantics isn't quite the same. operator [] (size_t i) 
>> wouldn't
>> return the i'th character any more, at least not for characters 
>> outside the
>> ascii range.
>
>
> Correct (kind of), but I'd far prefer that std::string be used than 
> for some completely new type to be defined.

I don't know anything about i18n, but I believed that something like 
basic_string<SomeOtherCharacterSet> was the way to go.

-- 
Loïc