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: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-15 13:50:46

> 
> >  Very strange. You mention your library as possibly being more complete
> >  but then you tout someone else's. OK, I will study Artyom's Boost.Locale
> >  instead.
> 
> My library is more powerful in a way, but is also less polished  and 
>feature-complete.
> They also have completely different approaches in their  interface, as my 
>library is made 
>
> to be locale-agnostic and Artyom's chooses to  make use of the standard C++ 
>locale subsystem
> as much as possible, even though  it is inherently broken for Unicode.

Few notes, std::locale is not "inherently broken" it has a great way to do 
things,
just some things a generally done in imperfect way, the great thing about 
std::locale
that it is extensible which allows to to fix some issues and use it very well.

BTW there are still things that even "broken" std::locale does well, for example 
collation
(at least under Linux) works quite fine.

> 
> My library is a generic  implementation of Unicode, while Boost.Locale is 
>mostly a
> wrapper on top of ICU,  IBM's Unicode library.
> 

Yes and not, it is not wrapper of ICU, but ICU is central part, you can use many 
Unicode/Localization
providers even standard library and in many cases it works very well.

But ICU gives very good and high quality features that standard libraries
do not.

Artyom