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: 2011-01-17 06:14:26

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:41:25 -0500, Chad Nelson wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:56:23 -0800 (PST)
> Artyom <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>>> The system I'm now using for my programs  might interest you.
>>> 
>>> I have four classes: ascii_t, utf8_t, utf16_t, and  utf32_t.
>>> Assigning one type to another automatically converts it to the
>>> target type during the copy. (Converting to ascii_t will throw an
>>> exception  if a resulting character won't fit into eight bits.)
>>> 
>>
>> If so (and this is what I see in code) ASCII is misleading.
>> It should be called Latin1/ISO-8859-1 but not ASCII.
> 
> Probably, but latin1_t isn't very obvious, and iso_8859_1_t is a little
> awkward to type. ;-) As I've said, this code was written solely for my
> company, I'd make a number of changes if I were going to submit it to
> Boost.

I'm a little concerned by this talk of ASCII and Latin1.  When, say, utf8_t
is given a char* does it not treat is as OS-default encoded rather than
ASCII/Latin1?  I've skimmed to code but havn't managed to work out how the
classes treat this case.

Alex

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