Re: [boost] [rfc] I/O Library Design

From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-19 13:47:01

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:

> It occurs to me that perhaps it is not unreasonable after all to
> restrict the library to supporting Unicode encodings for in-memory
> character representation.

I personally believe Unicode (not only the character set, but also its 
collations and algorithms) is the only viable way to represent 
characters, and thus should be the way strings work with. (get out evil 
locales and other stuff!)
Of course, various encodings can still be used for serialization.

Unfortunately, C++ is quite far from having good Unicode tools (not that 
other programming languages are really better -- Unicode is simply quite 
complicated, because human languages just are)

ICU has most of the stuff, but not with the right interfaces.