Re: [boost] Proposal: XML APIs in boost

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-01 11:18:35

"Stefan Seefeld" <seefeld_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:43678835.2010605_at_sympatico.ca...
> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> IIUC the major obstacle to XML support is proper unicode support.
>> Don't we need a unicode library first?
>
> I carefully worked around this issue by making the string type
> a template parameter. :-)
>
> That's not only because boost doesn't have a unicode library yet,
> but because people might use different libraries for that, or
> even use std::string if they are careful.

IMO, Unicode support is way beyond string template parameter. Unicode means 
different character sets to support, different encoding format, different 
encoding schemes sets and different tradeoffs in optimization and all above.

Gennadiy.