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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-22 11:01:15

"Erik Wien" <wien_at_[hidden]> writes:

> "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. ;) 

How is this different from the situation with filesystem::path, where
eager checking has turned out to be painful for a broad spectrum of
users?

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