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

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-20 13:38:22

Erik Wien wrote:
> "Eric Niebler" <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>> Such a one-size-fits-all unicode_string is guaranteed to be
>> inefficient for some applications.
>
> Yes... That's why I would like the encoding to be templated. Allowing
> the programmer to choose the encoding best suited for his/her needs.

It's good to have one string class for library interoperability reasons. 
Otherwise library A would demand utf8_string, library B would demand 
utf16_string, and library C would demand utf32_string. No matter which one 
you choose, you'll pay a price. (This doesn't change even if you spell 
utf8_string as string<utf8>.)