Re: [boost] [nowide] Library Updates and Boost's broken UTF-8 codecvt facet

Subject: Re: [boost] [nowide] Library Updates and Boost's broken UTF-8 codecvt facet
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir.prus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-08 08:29:05

On 07-Oct-15 8:37 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
> Do this !
>
> Note the test in the serialization library for the current facet. I don't know if it's useful - it has been in the past.
> I presume you can either move that test in or supply one that's at least as good.
>
>> And than other libraries should replace the broken one by a new one
>> and remove boost/detail/utf8_codevt* all together.
>
> You'll have to give us some warning - maybe skip a release or maybe
> just use header re-direction.

I would prefer for any such replacement to be still part of boost/detail. Depending on boost.locale just
to get one header seems not perfect.

- Volodya