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

Subject: Re: [boost] [General] Always treat std::strings as UTF-8
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-14 17:05:48

John B. Turpish wrote:
> By the way, I disagree with Peter's assessment that, "you rarely, if ever, 
> need to access the Nth character," but I will gladly cede that this 
> depends on your problem domain.

It obviously depends on the problem domain :-) but, when talking about 
Unicode, you can't reliably access the Nth character, in general, even with 
UCS-32. (As far as I know.)