Re: [boost] Interest in another formatting library ?

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in another formatting library ?
From: Roberto Hinz (robhz786_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-25 20:49:25

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 1:43 AM, degski via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On 24 June 2017 at 17:42, Roberto Hinz via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
> > (5) boost.stringify aims (todo) to support translation from utf-8 to
> utf-16
> > and vice-versa, and other encodings. For example:
> >
> >       boost::stringify::write_to(destination) ("aaa", u"bbb", U"ccc",
> > L"ddd");
> >
> > will work regardless of the destination character type.
> >
>
> You might want to hold of on doing this untill Boost.Nowide has crystalised
> completely and depend on that, as there are a number of thorny issues (see
> recent mailing list postings, (warning: many!)) regarding this on Windows.
> Boost.Nowide should/will provide the concensus solution to this
> conversion/problem.
>

Thanks for the advice. I will wait and follow the consensus to Boost.Nowide,
and study this subject carefully.

Robhz