Re: [boost] [locale] review

Subject: Re: [boost] [locale] review
From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-17 15:25:49

Hi Artyom,

I don't have time to answer in much detail, but I'll just re-emphasise 
that I would very much like to see a simple and fast character set 
conversion like this:

     string l1_name = charset_conv<utf8,latin1>(utf8_name);

In my own charset conversion code, I generated a large enum of all the 
character set names and aliases based on the IANA registry 
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets).  I then have a 
fallback converter using iconv, and fast specialisations for cases like 
utf-to/from-iso8859.  I would happily contribute those specialisations 
if you had a way to plug them in.  Currently you offer either 
conversion functions that take character set names as strings, which I 
dislike because of the overhead of the run-time lookup that is required 
(especially for short strings), and stream processing, which I dislike 
because I don't want the overhead (runtime and lines-of-code) of 
copying to and from stringstreams.

Regards,  Phil.