Re: [boost] Boost.Locale (was Re: [SQL-Connectivity] Is Boost interested in CppDB?)

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Locale (was Re: [SQL-Connectivity] Is Boost interested in CppDB?)
From: Klaim (mjklaim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-14 16:16:03

Doesn't C++0x specify char to be UTF-8, char16_t  to be UTF-16 and char32_t
to be UTF-32? Potentially misleading source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x>std::string then becomes UTF-8
character container by default.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 22:05, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> On 12/14/2010 2:27 PM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
>
>> On 14/12/2010 16:08, Eric Niebler wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/14/2010 9:53 AM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1 -- if there was a library that did easy conversion from
>>>> std::wstring (usually the default in Windows now) to proper UTF-8
>>>> encoded std::string in Boost that would be *awesome*. I can totally
>>>> use that library in cpp-netlib too. ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Please, no. std::string is not an appropriate holder for a UTF-8 string.
>>> It encourages random-access mutation of any byte in a UTF-8 sequence,
>>> pretty much guaranteeing data corruption.
>>>
>>>
>> It is, however, an appropriate holder for the *data* of a UTF-8 string.
>>
>
> Does not C++0x define character types for Unicode characters ? Would not a
> basic_string<utf8> ( or whatever it is called ) character type be a better
> choice than basic_string<char> if that is the case, if the former existed ?
>
>
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