Re: [boost] [Boost.Locale] New Release

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost.Locale] New Release
From: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-13 15:19:54

> From: Mathias Gaunard 
> 
> That's a very interesting wrapper of ICU.
> It might even kill off my Unicode library.
> 

I don't think so, I've been watching after this library and it was very
interested in it.

Note, there is quite a big difference:

Boost.Locale provides **localization** centric API. I do not bother too
much with character properties, I even do not provide UTF-8/16/32
code-point iterator because you are rarely need to go down to such low
level. You rather need higher level abstraction: characters, words etc.

Most of algorithms provided in Boost.Locale are actually locale dependent
with very few exceptions:Unicode normalization, case folding and
character set conversion just because they extremely important.

More then that I fully support non-Unicode character sets (however I
do not recommend them).

So I do think that Unicode library that deals with lower level 
is important and they would rather complete each other then
replace it.

Artyom