Re: [boost] [locale] Review results for Boost.Locale library

Subject: Re: [boost] [locale] Review results for Boost.Locale library
From: Steve Bush (sb2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-27 04:43:44

> Before you continue this "Crusade" against Boost.Locale,

 

My view of this affair is as follows:

 

Artyom advocates universal use of UTF-8 – see:

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049947/should-utf-16-be-considered-harmful

 

I believe this will be deeply unpopular with Asian programmers who, for whatever reasons, hate UTF-8 and love UTF-16.

 

Artyom has also said that MSVC is "broken" and (as I understand it) that all programmers should use ASCII for locale's gettext translate.

 

However, just because boost is a portable library and boost locale is used for localisation doesn’t mean that programmers are writing *portable applications*.  In other words, people may well wish to USE boost locale in UTF-16 environment eg Windows and have nothing to do with UTF-8 or ASCII.

 

As I understand it, those people are not well supported by the gettext bit of locale.

 

I don’t think that can be resolved at this stage, but one should not try and present a necessity as a virtue – which will be resented.