Re: [boost] Query for interest in including a shim class converting between char*, wchar_t, string, wstring

Subject: Re: [boost] Query for interest in including a shim class converting between char*, wchar_t, string, wstring
From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-25 05:24:59

On 25.08.2011 11:11, Tan, Tom (Shanghai) wrote:
> -          The name TR is inspired from QT' tr() macro.
>
Qt's tr() stands for "translate" because that thing is the entry point 
for Qt's localization/message catalog system. In other words, you use 
tr() only for user-visible string that should get translated. That makes 
it a poor inspiration for something that is concerned with encoding 
conversion.

Sebastian