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

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-10 07:39:58

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:21:36 -0400, Beman Dawes wrote
> "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/

Note that the date-time paper hasn't made it there just yet -- in the meantime
you can find it at 

http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/libraries/date_time/proposal_v75/date_time_standard.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/7vr3q

Jeff