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

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Unicode (was Re: Boost.Locale)
From: Alexander Lamaison (awl03_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-16 06:07:13

> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:50:47 +0100, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> 
> > On 15/12/2010 18:50, Artyom wrote:
> 
> > Few notes or questions, you say that your library is locale agnostic,
> > I see a contradiction between what you say and what you need to implement
> 
...
> 
> > 2. case  conversion - is locale dependent - for example if the locale is Turkish
> >     then upper("i")=="©" while upper("i")="I" for other languages.
> 
> Simple case conversions are the easy 1:1 language- and context-agnostic 
> mappings.

How are you defining 'simple' conversions?  They are either right or wrong.
Not converting i to © for a Turkish user is just plain wrong and rather
defeats the point of Unicode.

Alex