Re: [boost] Boost.Unicode (was Re: Boost.Locale)

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Unicode (was Re: Boost.Locale)
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-15 21:39:59

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Mathias Gaunard
<mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 15/12/2010 13:34, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
>>
>> This is just beautiful -- I think this is exactly what I need in
>> cpp-netlib! Will this be submitted to Boost for review soon, because I
>> really want to be able to deal with UTF-8 real soon now. :D
>
> It could be submitted soon if I gave it a bit of love. If my talk about it
> gets accepted for boostcon 2011, I will definitely have it in the review
> queue several months before it starts.
>

Cool!

>>
>> So, what are the features you'd like to implement so that us potential
>> users can be the judge of whether it's feature-complete enough?
>
> - I need to finish support for word, sentence and line boundaries

This doesn't sound like something I'd need, so I'm not going to wait for this.

> - The ABI needs to be more clearly defined to guarantee backward and upward
> compatibility

I'm not too worried about ABI maintenance especially if I'm just going
to write a header-only library that will require this, so that's not a
deal breaker for me.

> - The convert and segment subsystem must be clearly separated into its own
> library and namespace

Okay. This sounds like a good thing, but a migration path would be
enough I think for people wanting to use the "current" version
(assuming I can get it from the sandbox).

> - The system must be made SIMD-ready

I don't see how this would be a requirement, but maybe it might be
critical for some people who actually care that a text processing
library would be SIMD ready.

> - Simple case conversion should be added

I'd really like this, but not really too critical. I'm just more
worried about encoding to UTF-8.

> - General case folding (and maybe collation) should be added

This doesn't sound critical to me (well, I mostly need English and
"webby" characters) but I guess this would be good.

>
> Nothing among these is particularly difficult.
>

Cool, I'll look forward to giving it a whirl soon. :D

Thanks Mathias!

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Dean Michael Berris
deanberris.com