[boost] Re: std::string <-> std::wstring conversion

From: Stefan Slapeta (stefan_nospam__at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-17 18:21:01

Robert Ramey wrote:
> 
> Note that the implementation above is not dependent on codecvt nor on
> streams.
> 
> 

This is absolutely crucial. Imagine you have to read XML files with many 
thousands of strings...

BTW, that's the same reason that lexical_cast isn't applicable for many 
real cases. Its catastrophic performance inhibits every usage whenever 
speed _could_ be an issue...

I would like to see this conversion functions available at a more 
general place than the serialization library. But probably there is much 
more to do to improve internationalization support than only providing 
string/wstring conversion ;)

Stefan