Re: [boost] [General] Always treat std::strings as UTF-8?

Subject: Re: [boost] [General] Always treat std::strings as UTF-8?
From: Alexander Lamaison (awl03_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-14 11:09:29

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:52:06 +0200, Peter Dimov wrote:

> Alexander Lamaison wrote:
>> Windows can't give you a narrow string in the first place that it can't 
>> accept back.
> 
> It can, and it does. You can have a file whose name can't be represented as 
> a narrow string in the current code page. If you use an "ANSI" function to 
> get its name, you can only receive an approximation of its real name. If you 
> use the "wide" function, you get its real name. 

Ok, I see what you mean.  The way I was looking at it, the string Windows
gave you was wrong, but correctly encoded :P