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

From: Erik Wien (wien_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-21 16:13:11

"Miro Jurisic" <macdev_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:macdev-
> I am not sure I buy this. I think that if you want to have unchecked 
> Unicode
> data, you should use a vector<char*_t>. Unicode strings have well-defined
> invariants with respect to canonicalization and well-formedness, and I 
> think
> that the a Unicode string abstraction should enforce those invariants.
>
> Having intermediate states that are invalid and a final state that is 
> valid is
> not a feature, it's a bug. It's a silent failure that I want to know 
> about.

Amen. ;)