Re: [boost] [unicode] provide <boost/cuchar.hpp> header?

Subject: Re: [boost] [unicode] provide <boost/cuchar.hpp> header?
From: Artyom Beilis (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-27 09:15:21

> From: Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
> 
> The C++11 standard library provides a header <cuchar>, with a bit of
> Unicode support, based on C's <uchar.h>:
> 
>     Macros:  __STDC_UTF_16__, __STDC_UTF_32__
> 
>     Functions: mbrtoc16, c16rtomb, mbrtoc32, c32rtomb
> 
> The functions provide conversion between char sequences and UTF-16/UTF-32.
> 
> It would be useful to have a <boost/cuchar.hpp> header so that these
> functions could be used with existing compilers and standard
> libraries.
> 
> Does anyone have an implementation of these functions they would be
> willing to contribute?
> 


They should be trivially implementable using mbsrtowcstype of functions
and boost::locale::conv::utf_to_utf (header only)

Also note, the only compiler that actually provides char16_t and char32_t
at this point is GCC...

So meanwhile they would be quite useless.

(No, MSVC10 does not provide them they are typedefs(!) and not real types)

 
 
Artyom Beilis
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