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

Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc] Request Feedback for Boost.Ustr Unicode String
From: Joe Mucchiello (jmucchiello_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-15 23:11:23

>> text t6(pq_some_func(), textenc::libpq());
>>
> You don't need it. You're proposing a design that tries to solve a
> non-existing problem. There is no such diversity of encodings in the
> interfaces. I don't know what is libpq, but it either uses UTF-8 in which
> case you write:
> 
> string t6 = pq_some_func();
> 
I think the point here that you don't need to know the encoding of libpq.
If the policy is that you use this text class and that to use it you
convert it using the standard text constructor that takes the listed tag.

For libraries that use UTF-8 the conversion is a no-op. Adapting a new
library to the "boost way" just involves adding a new tag to the textenc
namespace and, if necessary, writing a new pair conversion routines.