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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-19 21:07:08

At 07:24 PM 10/19/2004, Erik Wien wrote:
 >> 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++.

Since there is probably more than a 90% chance it will eventually get into 
standard C++, I think we should consider implementing it and then use it 
for the low-level functionality needed by higher level Boost Unicode 
libraries.

--Beman