Re: [boost] UTF-8 conversion etc.

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-04 04:27:52

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Phil Endecott
<spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Matt Gruenke wrote:
> >

[snip]

>  > Something that might be worth a look is Glib::ustring, in glibmm-2.
>  >
>  > http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGlib_1_1ustring.html
>
>  Thanks for the link; this is indeed the sort of thing that I have in
>  mind.  Some observations:
>
>  - It doesn't seem to offer any complexity guarantees.
>
>  - It uses size_type to pass and return positions in the string, and
>  doesn't specify whether these are byte or character positions; I get
>  the impression that they're character positions but I could be wrong.
>
>  - It offers implicit conversion to and from std::string.  Is this desirable?

Not at all desirable. But a str() function member is very welcome.

>  Regards,  Phil.

Regards,
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Felipe Magno de Almeida