Re: [boost] [filesystem] Major changes before standardization

From: Rogier van Dalen (rogiervd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-16 09:05:30

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:20:23 -0500, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I'm currently working on a major revision of the Boost filesystem library
> aimed at getting it ready to be proposed to the C++ committee for the next
> Library TR.
> 
> The critical technical change required is internationalization. The plan is
> to provide a templated basic_path class, with typedefs for path and wpath.
> In other words, an approach very similar to the current std::basic_string,
> std::string, and std::wstring.

Does this suppose that all OS paths can be represented as a string of
wchar's? Does it suppose that the whole range that wchar_t can cover
is usable in file names? Would that have to be added to the wchar_t
definition?
What if I want to use a 32-bit Unicode codepoint for a filename on Windows?

Regards,
Rogier