[boost] Converters (Was: Re: IOStreams formal review start)

From: George M. Garner Jr. (gmgarner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-11 19:30:51

Johnathan,

> The problem is really that I haven't finished writing the components that 
> make
> this easy. For this, I apologize. (See User's Guide-->Code Conversion.)
>

Looking at the documentation for Code Conversion I do not see any way to 
convert from Unicode to multibyte.  The converter class only works one way 
from multibyte to Unicode.  I suppose this falls within the category of 
"not-yet-implemented."

I would like to see converter_impl  accept codecvt_type as a template 
argument perhaps with a default of std::codecvt but so that I can replace 
it.  const codecvt_type& cvt = codecvt_type() also would be added to the 
converter constructor.  Regex works this way.

The other common code conversion task that is fairly Windows specific but a 
common task nonetheless is to convert \r\n to and from \n in text streams.

Regards,

George.