Re: [boost] [filesystem] imbue for path_traits

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-14 09:14:15

Alexei Alexandrov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently filesystem::path_traits doesn't have imbue() method while wpath_traits
> has. Thus, there is explicit assumption that external and internal encodings for
> path are the same.
> 
> But this is not true sometimes. For example, currently it doesn't seem to be
> possible to use filesystem::path conveniently on Linux in cases when internal
> encoding of the application is UTF-8 while system encoding might differ from
> UTF-8 (GB2312, for example).

I've created Ticket #1682 for this, and will work on it before the 
1.36.0 release.

Thanks,

--Beman