Re: [boost] loglite - A logging library (JD)

Subject: Re: [boost] loglite - A logging library (JD)
From: Emil Dotchevski (emildotchevski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-29 12:28:17

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Tan, Tom (Shanghai) <TTan_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>  Please have a look and let me know what you think could be improved.
> The first thing I notice is that it does not support std::wstring
> directly. It's a big problem in my case I use wide-character in all my
> applications, which simplifies dealing with UTF-16 adopted by Modern
> Windows platforms.
>
> If I need to any string info from my program, I'll have to convert from
> UTF16(represented as std::wstring) to UTF8 so that it could be working
> well with LOGLITE. That's inconvenient.

OTOH, if you are targeting any other platform in addition to Windows,
it probably makes more sense to adopt UTF-8 throughout your program
and convert to UTF-16 before calling Windows functions.

> Offtopic, I am expecting boost::filesystem V3 for this very same reason.

Way offtopic, I also find path/wpath problematic. In my mind, their
invariant doesn't differ enough from that of string/wstring to justify
coupling my interfaces with boost::filesystem. So I use UTF-8
string/char const * in my code on all platforms, and use
boost::filesystem as an implementation detail, through wrappers that
take UTF-8 strings.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode