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

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-21 18:02:34

Erik Wien wrote:
> "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. ;) 
> 

No fair bringing religion into this. ;-) I'll repeat what I said before 
-- this would be an unfortunate design, and you'll hear about it from 
your users. If you force people to do their bit twiddling in 
vector<char*_t>, then you impose an extra allocation and a copy to get 
it into a unicode::string, and most people won't bother.

-- 
Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com