Re: [program_options] Proposal: self-contained, header-only port of Boost Program Options library

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-09-17 13:16:58

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Or the user could be running a non-UTF-8 locale, but accessing a 
> filesystem created by somebody who was using UTF-8 - in which case any 
> filenames should be in UTF-8, even if the user's locale disagrees.
>
> It is because of this last possibility that I recommend treating all 
> command-line arguments as UTF-8 on Unix systems, even if running a 
> non-UTF-8 locale, for all cases where treating them as binary blobs is 
> impractical.  Unix filenames are binary blobs, but the de-facto standard 
> for interpreting these binary blobs as text is to use UTF-8. [...]

How does any of this affect the library? It just gives you whatever you 
passed as `argv`, without needing to interpret it.

Windows is a different story.