Re: [boost] Re: [Unicode strings] We're off

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-19 09:04:29

Daniel James wrote:
> Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
> 
>> I think it would be desireble to have the dynamic class even when not 
>> having such iostream functionality. Sometimes we dont know which utf 
>> we are going to use, even when needing to read it from somewhere else 
>> or making it through some low-level way. But having iostreams read and 
>> write unicode would be awesome. Maybe having somekind of stringstream 
>> would be great too, but I think it would be much more work than it was 
>> planned.
> 
> 
> Why should such a string class stop at unicode? Wouldn't it be a good
> idea to support other encodings? It might be better to have such a class
> as part of a separate library, probably with 'pluggable' encodings,
> which would include unicode.
> 

Well, it would be a good idea. I dont how is the license of the ICUU of 
the IBM, but maybe we could use that, or perhaps such feature could just 
be too much trouble. But if we have a unicode string then we can reuse 
that already.

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