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

Subject: Re: [boost] [general] What will string handling in C++ look like inthe future [was Always treat ... ]
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-19 13:01:15

Artyom wrote:

> How can we address STL problem and UTF-8? Simply?
>
> Provide:
>
>    boost::basic_fstream
>    boost::fopen
>    boost::freopen
>    boost::remove
>    boost::rename
>
> Which are using same std::* classes under Posix platform
> and UTF-8 aware implementations for Windows.

This is basically what I do as well, wrappers that on Windows translate 
UTF-8 into UTF-16 and call the corresponding _w* function.