Re: [boost] [serialization] Why can't hyphens appear in NVP's?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-20 00:12:22

That's the solution for '\0'.  Its just not obvious to me that that is the
whole problem.  What about '\01' ? or non-printable characters in general?
Does the encoding come into play?  How?  These are questions I don't
currently have an answer to.

Robert Ramey

Lucas Galfaso wrote:
> I am still not sure that you can not put a representation of the
> character \0 inside an XML, but if it were possible, the natural
> representation would be "�" (without the quotes) Why not just use
> it?
>
> \TM
>
> "Jonathan Wakely" <cow_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:20050719102904.GC92286_at_compsoc.man.ac.uk...
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:12:57PM +0900, Darren Cook wrote:
>>
>>>> The xml_wiarchve and xml_woarechive do use UTF-8.  The specific
>>>> case reported by the user is a std::wstring with a '\0' in the
>>>> middle of it. Using UTF-8 doesn't address the issue.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I thought you meant the zero byte was part of a multi-byte
>>> character. Converting to UTF-8 solves that (?).
>>>
>>> But you just mean a standalone \0 character? Doesn't that mean the
>>> problem applies to serializing std::string as well?
>>
>> Yes, it will.  The root of the problem is that std::string and
>> std::wstring can contain any arbitrary sequence of characters,
>> including NULs.
>>
>> jon
>>
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