Re: [boost] Strings tagged with their character set

From: Michael Marcin (mmarcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-26 21:10:25

James Porter wrote:
> 
> 
> On a different note, does anyone see a practical use in having (mutable) 
> strings with variable-width character encodings? I can't think of any 
> practical use for them that wouldn't be equally well-served with an 
> array of bytes (like the email MIME-type example).
> 

What encoding would you propose we use that is not variable length?

UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 certainly are all variable length encodings.

- Michael Marcin