Re: [boost] [nowide] Request for interest (nowide unicode support for windows)

Subject: Re: [boost] [nowide] Request for interest (nowide unicode support for windows)
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-13 13:09:21

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Artyom <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> >
>>
>> What about boost::filesystem::path?
>>
>> In Christ,
>> Steven Watanabe
>>
>
> This has nothing to do with filesystem::path, it is about fixing issues
> of standard library under Windows where fopen of std::fstream
> is not capable of opening ordinary files.
>
> And BTW simple boost::filesystem::path has exactly the same issue
> when it is not "wide path" under Microsoft Windows.

Version 3, now in trunk, is totally "wide path" under Windows, at
least with the Microsoft supplied standard library. And even with
Cygwin, everything is totally wide path except that wide paths in file
opens are converted to narrow paths for the actual i/o stream call.

--Beman