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

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-17 18:47:54

Stefan Slapeta wrote:
>
> 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 ;)

Without specifying the encodings for the std::string and the std::wstring, 
it's not possible to convert between the two. Common wstring encodings are 
UCS-2, UTF-16, and UCS-4/UTF-32. The common std::string encodings are far 
too many to list here.