Re: [boost] UTF-8 conversion etc.

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-04 09:38:17

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On Tuesday 04 March 2008 04:11 am, Phil Endecott wrote:
> Matt Gruenke wrote:
> > Phil Endecott wrote:
> >> I'd like to offer something that's close to a drop-in replacement
> >> for std::string that will let people painlessly upgrade their code to
> >> proper character set support.
> >
> > 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_1ust
> >ring.html
>
> Thanks for the link; this is indeed the sort of thing that I have in
> mind.  Some observations:

There is also QString from qt, if you're not already aware of it.  I'm not 
saying it's necessarily the way you want to go, but it does handle 
conversions between different encodings (see toUtf8() and fromUtf8() for 
example).

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qstring.html

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Frank
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