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

From: Erik Wien (wien_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-19 18:24:42

> 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.

No, I was not aware of that. Thanks for the link.

There doesn't seem to be any problems associated with a possible unicode 
library, and that C library being included into the C++ standard. It 
basically does a lot of the low-level unicode stuff that I am currently 
doing by hand, so it would probably be more of a blessing than a curse if it 
got included into standard C++.