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: 2011-01-18 17:27:09

Alexander Lamaison wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:46:41 +0200, Peter Dimov wrote:
...
> > FILE* fopen( char const* name, char const* mode );
> >
> > The 'name' argument must be UTF-8 on Unicode-aware platforms and file 
> > [...]
>
> Are you saying this is how it should be or this is how it is?

This is one possible and very reasonable specification of a "how it should 
be" fopen.