Re: [boost] [string] proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [string] proposal
From: Mostafa (mostafa_working_away_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-23 20:58:45

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:10:10 -0800, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Patrick Horgan <phorgan1_at_[hidden]>  
> wrote:
>> On 01/21/2011 09:50 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:

<snip>

>> +1 with the caveat that UTF-8 and UTF-32 is considered by many to be the
>> most needed types with UTF-16 considered evil.  (Seems to be a
>> Windows/non-Windows split.  I like them all;)
>
> IIRC, Oracle supports UTF-8 and UTF-16, so a lot of folks will want
> UTF-16 for that reason. It isn't just Windows programmers.

FYI: OS/X and iOS both also use UTF-16.

Mostafa