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: 2011-01-15 11:55:23

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:46:10 -0800 (PST), Artyom wrote:

>> Yet you still need to convert between  UTF-8 and the POSIX locales.
>> Even if most recent POSIX systems use UTF-8 as  their locale, there is no 
>> guarantee of that.
>> Indeed, quite a few still  run in  latin-1.
>> 
> 
> 
> No you don't need convert UTF-8 to "locales" encoding as char* is native
> system API unlike Windows one. So you don't need to mess around with encodings
> at all unless you deal with text related stuff like for example collation.

I'm not sure I follow.  If you pass a UTF-8 encoded string to a POSIX OS
that uses a non-UTF charater set, how is the OS meant to interpret that?

Alex

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