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

Subject: Re: [boost] [nowide] Request for interest (nowide unicode support for windows)
From: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-13 13:24:15

> 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.
> 

Question:

Can I write:

  boost::filesystem::fstream f("שלום.txt",std::ios_base::out);

When "שלום.txt" is UTF-8 string and Unicode file name will be created?
If so, way to go.

If you suggesting:

  boost::filesystem::fstream f(L"שלום.txt",std::ios_base::out);

Then this is not what I'm talking about.

I'm not talking about "Wide" path -- this is exectly what I was writing
"nowide" make a library compatible with C/C++ **standard** functions 
like std::fstream::open(char const *,...) or std::fopen(char const *,...)
but be fully Unicode enabled (utf-8) as they are on all-other operating
systems without all "wide" api.

Is somebody interested?

Artyom