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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-14 19:42:12

Rogier van Dalen <rogiervd_at_[hidden]> writes:

>>>namespace unicode {
>>>    struct range {
>>>        enum type {
>>>            latin1_supplement,
>>>            latin_extended_a,
>>>            latin_extended_a,
>>>            ipa_extensions,
>>>           // ...
>>>        }
>>>    };
>>>}
>> Yes - it should be namespaced - I had omitted it for clarity.
>> I still think that the uni prefix might be useful to remind those
>> programmers using 'using unicode' that these are Unicode functions - but
>> I am happy to lose that argument.

...
>> Oops - caught - I was attempting to write it in such a way that it could
>> be used from C as well as C++ - hence BOOL not bool.
>> DWORD is actually uint32_t.
> I know, but - correct me if I'm wrong - I think the sort keys consist
> of 16-bit integers.

Rogier and Graham,

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