Re: Boost.Charconv review runs January 15th - 25th, 2024

From: Peter Turcan (peterturcan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-01-18 22:13:48

Christopher,

Just FYI - I have started to review the documentation for this library -
from an information architecture perspective - and will have feedback by
the 25th.

- Peter

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:14 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 1/17/24 21:24, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
> > On 1/15/24 2:31 AM, Christopher Kormanyos via Boost wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> The review of Boost.Charconv by Matt Borland runs
> >> Monday, January 15th through January 25th, 2024.
> >>
> >> Code: https://github.com/cppalliance/charconvDocs:
> >> https://master.charconv.cpp.al/Review Schedule:
> >> https://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html
> >
> > Note that there is are files in boost detail which implement utf8 code
> > convert facets and tests thereof.  These have been in there for 20 years
> > and have served the function needed.  When originally made, it was
> > discussed that they should be separate official libraries.  The
> > "consensus" was that they shouldn't be as they weren't officially
> > reviewed.  This has been a festering carbuncle on the face of the
> > serialization library since all that time.  Would acceptance of this
> > library replace the functionality in the "library" detail?
>
> AFAIU, Boost.CharConv implements parsing and formatting of numbers while
> utf8_codecvt_facet, which I think you're referring, converts strings
> between UTF-8 and whatever encoding wchar_t represents. Those are
> completely separate tasks.
>
> If anything, the already accepted Boost.Locale can be thought of the
> public alternative to utf8_codecvt_facet.
>
>
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