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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-19 14:46:48

At 11:16 AM 11/16/2004, John Maddock wrote:
 >...
 >Not all wide character sequences can be represented as a narrow character 

 >one (depending upon the encoding used), and if the underlying OS uses
 >narrow character strings as path names (unix), and the wide character
 >sequence can
 >not be converted, then the file can not exist, so we get an error either
 >which way.

Notice too that if a narrow character path O/S is very restrictive as to 
what characters can appear in a path, then common encodings usually viewed 
as quite portable wouldn't work for that O/S.

--Beman