Re: [boost] [General] Always treat std::strings as UTF-8? (was[Process] List of small issues)

Subject: Re: [boost] [General] Always treat std::strings as UTF-8? (was[Process] List of small issues)
From: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-14 10:17:47

> I'm anxiously awaiting the day everyone in  the Linux/Unix
> world will finally switch to UTF-8 so we can be done with
> this  question once and for all. 

Actually it had already happened:

1. All modern Linux Distributions come with UTF-8 locales by default
2. FreeBSD uses UTF-8 locales by default
3. OpenSolaris uses UTF-8 locales by default
4. Mac OS X uses UTF-8 locales by default

Of course users can define other locales but this is other story.

Artyom