Re: [boost] [general] What will string handling in C++ look like in the future [was Always treat ... ]

Subject: Re: [boost] [general] What will string handling in C++ look like in the future [was Always treat ... ]
From: Alexander Lamaison (awl03_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-19 12:21:25

> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:10:06 +0100, Matus Chochlik wrote:
> 
> >>
> > They made the transition?  I must have missed this.
> >
> > The Windows API _is_ C and has all the problems we've been talking about.
> >
> OK, besides Microsoft C world :)

By changing the OS-default encoding to assume char* string was UTF-8.  Same
as for C++.  This whole issue is about how to accommodate OSses that don't
make that assumption.

Alex

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