Re: [boost] [review] Review of Nowide (Unicode) starts today

Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Review of Nowide (Unicode) starts today
From: Zach Laine (whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-13 20:52:18

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Niall Douglas via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> > Now as you have seen there are many possible "non-standard"  UTF-8
> variants.
> >
> > What should I accept?
>
> I still strongly suggest you simply call RtlUTF8ToUnicodeN()
> (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/
> hardware/ff563018(v=vs.85).aspx)
> to do the UTF-8 conversion. Do **nothing** else.

Niall, could you explain why?  I don't know any of the Windows-relevant
details.

Zach