Re: [boost] [gsoc] Request Feedback for Boost.Ustr Unicode String Adapter

Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc] Request Feedback for Boost.Ustr Unicode String Adapter
From: Artyom Beilis (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-11 07:57:40

> From: Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]>

> Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc] Request Feedback for Boost.Ustr Unicode String Adapter
> 
> On 11 August 2011 12:03, Artyom Beilis <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> 
>>        The problem is policy the problem is Boost just can't decide once
>>        and forever that std::string is UTF-8...
> 
> Even if there was a consensus within boost, that isn't feasible. We
> don't own std::string, so we don't have a say in what it represents.

std::string represents a sequence of "char" objects that happens
to be useful for text processing. It can represent a text in any
encoding.

The question is how we treat this sequence... And this is a
matter of policy and requirements of the library.

> There's a lot of existing code which is not based on that assumption -
> we can't just wish it out of existence and boost should be compatible
> with it.

Then cross platform, Unicode aware programming will always
(I'm sorry) suck with Boost :-)


Thats it...

Artyom Beilis
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