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: Patrick Horgan (phorgan1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-20 00:16:45

On 01/19/2011 09:52 AM, Peter Dimov wrote:
> ... elision by patrick ...
>
> I'm not sure that I do, either. Nevertheless, people at the Unicode 
> consortium have been working on that for... 20 years now? What 
> technical obstacle that currently blocks their progress do you foresee 
> disappearing in the future? Occam says that variable width characters 
> are simply a better match for the problem domain, even when character 
> width in bits is not a problem.
You lost me with the last line.  I'm thinking you're talking about 
Occam's razor which says that we should prefer simpler explanations for 
things except when a more complicate explanation does a better job of 
explaining the facts.  I'm completely lost about how that would apply to 
choosing a variable width encoding over a fixed width encoding.

Patrick