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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-19 16:10:17

At 10:22 PM 10/18/2004, Erik Wien wrote:

 >...
 >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.

Are you aware of the Unicode Technical Report (TR) being prepared by the C 
committee? See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1040.pdf

While there is no guarantee, it is a definite possibility that the C++ 
committee will use this C TR as part of Unicode support in C++. Because 
this TR is so limited in scope (it just has a few conversion functions), 
that probably won't cause problems for a C++ Unicode library, but you 
should still be aware of the data types introduced.

--Beman