Re: [boost] Fw: [locale] Formal review of Boost.Locale library

Subject: Re: [boost] Fw: [locale] Formal review of Boost.Locale library
From: Ryou Ezoe (boostcpp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-14 17:01:01

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Artyom <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> well, except last שָלוֹם עוֹלָם part.
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> Because the sources are in UTF-8 ;-) and it is "Hello World" in Hebrew
It can be UTF-16 as wel.
It's just other encoding can't represents hebrew characters.

> (with vowel marks)
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> :-)
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> The best is just to use UTF-8 (source code) anywhere - MSVC handles it
> just fine...
I agree with that part.

But the point is string literal with no encoding prefix is evil.
if i write

char s[] = "あいうえお" ;

MSVC use shift-jis encoding.

Japanese will sure to write something like translate("日本語").

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> Artyom
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Ryou Ezoe