Boost logo

Boost :

Subject: Re: [boost] [string] proposal
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-24 06:24:23


On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Without knowing exactly what functionality is to be supported for each
> UTF string, I find it hard to know if one basic_utf_string template
> could cover the most critical cases. Would a template be able to
> support random access iterators for the variable length encodings, for
> example? I just don't know.

Is that a critical case?
Random-access over what? Code points? Characters?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

Boost list run by bdawes at acm.org, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, cpdaniel at pacbell.net, john at johnmaddock.co.uk