[boost] [1.45][filesystem3] utf8 support

Subject: [boost] [1.45][filesystem3] utf8 support
From: Jochen Wilhelmy (j.wilhelmy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-27 16:36:52

Hi!

now I switched to filesystem3. Everything works, but there is one issue 
on windows.
I'd like to use utf8 in my application. I can imbue an utf8-locale to 
path. But if I have
legacy libraries that take only 8 bit strings then I would pass utf8 
instead of ansi
(e.g. latin1). Therefore filesystem::path can be seen as a gateway 
between the application
and the operating system and therefore needs two locales, one for the 
application and
one for the operating system. Or an additional method utf8() that 
returns utf8 regardless
of the locale. What do you think?

-Jochen