Re: [filesystem] becoming worse than the standard?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-08-15 23:31:13

Gavin Lambert wrote:
> On 16/08/2022 07:35, Peter Dimov wrote:
> > The usual approach is to put
> >
> >    boost::filesystem::path::imbue( std::locale( std::locale::classic(),
> >      new boost::filesystem::detail::utf8_codecvt_facet ) );
> >
> > as the first thing in `main`.
> 
> As a library, you cannot assume that the application has done this (nor can you
> do it yourself).  The code has to act correctly regardless.

Yes in principle, but the question I'm replying to is this:

> Can you please submit a pull request showing me how route.cpp can be 
> correctly implemented according to these semantics?

In this case I can assume things.

route.cpp does create a path from argv[2], but interpreting it as UTF-8 would
probably be a feature. Using the ACP is wrong anyway as argv[2] is likely in the
console code page.