Re: [boost] Work that has been done on Unicode

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-18 12:46:53

Tomas Pecholt wrote:
>> Note that some of these have been already done by John Maddock as I
>> can see in regex header-directory.

Yep, they're quite similar to this idea.

>>>   // some standard types:
>>>   typedef unicode_iterator<std::string::iterator, wchar_t>
>>>   utf8_iterator; typedef
>>> unicode_iterator<std::basic_string<short>::iterator, wchar_t>
>>>   utf16_iterator; typedef std::wstring::iterator utf32_iterator;
>>>
>>>   typedef unicode_string<utf8_iterator> > utf8_string;
>>>   typedef unicode_string<utf16_iterator> > utf16_string;
>>>   typedef unicode_string<utf32_iterator> > utf32_string;

Note that wchar_t is *not* guarenteed to be 32-bits as you seem to be 
assuming here (it's not on windows for example).  Just a heads up.

John.