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

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-20 05:21:53

> e) There is nothing particularly special about unicode in this scheme. 
> Its
> just one more encoding scheme among many.  Therefore making a special
> unicode library would be unnecessarily specific.  Any efforts so spent 
> would
> be better invested in generic encoding/decoding algorithms and/or setting 
> up
> locale facts for specific encodings UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.

Robert, there is a lot more to Unicode than an encoding form:

Character properties.
Collation.
Bidirectional character handling.
Character shaping algorithms.

And lots more I've forgotten: do take a look at ICU, I don't like the C++ 
design much, but it's a *huge* and technically very competent library.

John.