[boost] Re: Any interest in adding unicode support to boost?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-18 23:47:15

I think you should spend a little more time investigating the following:

a) The "vault" files section has code by A Barbati which addresses issue
related to unicode.
b) Ron Garcia contributed codecvt facets for unicode that have been
incorporated into boost are currently used by two boost libraries
(serialization and program options.)
c) asni library functions exist for converting strings and characters
to/from wstrings/wchar s in accordance with the currently selected locale.
Not all libraries implement these functions however.

So its not clear to me what exactly needs to be done here - other than
fixing up some older stdandard libraries.  I don't think that's what you had
in mind.

Of course, I'm not exactly sure what you propose to do in your library other
than the above so these observations might not be relevant.  On the other
hand, if you want more project ideas, I'm sure we could come up with lots of
suggestions.

Robert Ramey

"Erik Wien" <wien_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:cl1tqh$qp$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> Hi. I am in the process of planning a library for handling unicode strings
> in C++, and would like to probe the interest in the boost community for
> something like that. I read through the unicode dicussion that was up back
> in april, and from what I could gather there was some amount of interest,
> but no one felt comfortable taking on the task as of yet.
>
> I am hoping to be able to run this project as my Bachelor's Thesis in
> Computer Engineering (Not sure if that is the correct translation from
> Norwegian.) and if it gets approved by my college, myself and two other
> programmers will spend one semester working exclusively on this. (of
course
> in collaboration with the boost community) At the end of that semester I
> hope the library (Or at least parts of it) will be in such a state it can
> submitted for review by boost.
>
> The library should ultimately have suppport for at least basic handling of
> unicode strings (in all encodings), collation of strings and other locale
> specific operations. The library should also be (to the extent that is
> possible) integrated with the standard C++ library (and boost) to get as
> much functionality as possible "for free". I'm here thinking of, among
other
> things, the std::locale class and compabillity with iostreams. How these
> requirements are fulfilled will be determined as the project (hopefully)
> moves forward.
>
> I really feel the C++ language needs some form of standardized unicode
> support, and developing such a library within the boost community would be
a
> very good way to ensure it fits everybody's needs the best possible way.
>
> If you have any, and I do mean ANY, thoughts on this, please do not
hesitate
> to reply to this mail and let me know. I'm looking forward to your
> responses.
>
> Best regards
> Erik Wien - Gjøvik College (Høyskolen i Gjøvik), Norway.
>
>
>
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