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

From: Erik Wien (wien_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-21 19:45:54

"Ben Hutchings" <ben.hutchings_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>>
>> You are quite correct... It is slow. And that is why I am hesitant to 
>> make decomposition something that will happen every time you assign 
>> something to a string.
>>
>> What this really boils down to, is what kind of usage pattern is the most 
>> common? The library should be written to provide the best performance on 
>> the operations most people do.
>
> How about this:
>
> - when initialising or assigning to a string, you can opt to normalise one 
> way or the other, or not at all
> - normalised strings are flagged as such
> - normalisation on comparison can be skipped if both strings are flagged 
> as being normalised the same way
> - normalisation on assignment can be skipped if the right-hand side is 
> flagged as being normalised appropriately

That is not a bad idea... I think... ;) Providing a "normalization scheme" 
as a setting in the string would be possible. I'll take that into 
consideration.