Re: [boost] [filesystem] Mac OS default codecvt facet

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] Mac OS default codecvt facet
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-14 15:53:12

Beman Dawes wrote:

> * Is UTF-8 OK with Mac OS users as the Boost.Filesystem default?

UTF-8 is not merely a default on Mac OS X. It's _the_ encoding used by the 
OS. You can't use any other encoding and expect things to work (if you leave 
ASCII land).

At least as far as I know since I've never used a Mac. :-)