Re: [boost] Report from Mont Tremblant C++ Committee meeting

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-10 06:21:36

"Keith MacDonald" <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:didfkv$dcf$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> Thanks for posting your report here.
>
> I understand why the decision was made not to support wide-character file 
> names in Filesystem (http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/faq.htm), 
> ...

The proposal fully supports wide-character file names. See the i18n branch 
on CVS. That branch should migrate to the CVS head real soon now.

Except for very simple libraries, proposals for standardization often differ 
from the Boost version. Please read the actual proposals rather than 
assuming they are exactly the same as the Boost versions. See 
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/

--Beman