Re: [boost] [UTF String] UTF String library 1.5 ready for perusal

Subject: Re: [boost] [UTF String] UTF String library 1.5 ready for perusal
From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-11 23:23:58

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 21:41, Chad Nelson <chad.thecomfychair_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:57:00 -0800
> Scott McMurray <me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> I understand why it's useful to know how long it is in encoding units,
>> but the number of code points seems quite useless to me.
>>
>> Can you elaborate?
>
> The size in code-points *is* the size of the string, according to the
> view of the string that the class exposes.
>

Ok, but what would I actually want to use that for?