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

Subject: Re: [boost] [general] What will string handling in C++ look like in the future
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-21 20:09:21

Patrick Horgan wrote:
...
> There's nothing wrong about either one, although blindly dealing with it 
> without knowing which would be problematic.  Of course this is an 
> artificial distinction and it might be Shift-JIS or EUC or others as well. 
> These are all valid and are only a subset of widely used 8-bit
encodings.

The "ANSI code page" on Windows may well use Shift-JIS. "ANSI" is just a(n 
unfortunate choice of) name, the actual encoding is not fixed and has little 
to do with ANSI - it depends on the Windows locale.