Re: [boost] Strings tagged with their character set

From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-24 14:53:20

James Porter wrote:
> Instead of defining character types per character set, you could use a 
> specialized char_traits class. It contains state_type, which is used 
> with codecvt from the I/O stream library. The default typedef for char 
> and wchar_t is mbstate_t, which appears in the standard specializations 
> for codecvt. (codecvt is used to perform code conversion between 
> character types; it's used in wfstream to convert a stream of chars on 
> disk to wchar_ts in memory.)
>
> If you change state_type in the char_traits, you'd be able to 
> differentiate the various basic_string types and include information 
> about the character encoding without writing a whole lot of new code.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I need to learn some more about this corner 
of "namespace std", clearly, before I go and re-invent something.

Phil.