Re: [boost] Call for interest for native unicode character and string support in boost

From: Ben Artin (macdev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-23 18:32:03

In article <086E419469537C439E250E428F0DF0930162A1_at_host.Sysdev.local>,
 "Graham" <Graham_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 1. Is this worth doing are enough people interested to make it
> worthwhile?

Yes. There has already been a lot of discussion of boost Unicode support on this 
list. You should read the archives before you continue with your proposal, 
because many of your questions are already discussed in the archives. Look for 
postings by Erik Wien, as he was the one driving the effort at that time.

> 2. Which would be the best implementation of basic_string to use?

This has been discussed at length in the archived threads. It is at best 
questionable to use basic_string for Unicode, and in my opinion it is almost 
certainly wrong.

> 3. Should unistring support equality due to the overhead in
> decomposition or should there be a decompunistring?

The question of whether Unicode APIs should present a normalized view to the 
client has also been touched upon. My opinion, probably stated in the archives, 
is that requiring the user of the API to know about decompositions before being 
able to correctly compare Unicode strings is unacceptable.

> 6. Any comments ?

I cannot stress this enough: please read the archives. I am sure that the 
enthusiasm for discussing various aspects of this design will be greatly 
diminished the second (or probably third, by now) time through.

Ben

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