Re: [boost] Review Request: Boost.Locale

Subject: Re: [boost] Review Request: Boost.Locale
From: Gevorg Voskanyan (v_gevorg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-24 16:08:54

Artyom wrote:
> No, it will not as Micorsoft would not agree. This is why 
> C++0x gives us char16_t and char32_t.

Microsoft's disagreement can not make something more conforming than it actually is, IMO :)
But I'm just nitpicking, and this point is not that relevant in practice, so let's put it off.

> AFAIK actually wchar_t defined by C and it allowed even 
> sizeof(wchar_t)==1

Sure it is allowed, but only as long as 1 byte is enough to encode all characters of supported locales:
C99, 7.17
"wchar_t
which is an integer type whose range of values can represent distinct codes for all
members of the largest extended character set specified among the supported locales"

Thanks,
Gevorg