Re: [boost] Strings tagged with their character set

James Porter wrote:

On a different note, does anyone see a practical use in having (mutable) strings with variable-width character encodings? I can't think of any practical use for them that wouldn't be equally well-served with an array of bytes (like the email MIME-type example).

What encoding would you propose we use that is not variable length? UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 certainly are all variable length encodings. - Michael Marcin