RE: [Boost-users] Re: Feature request for boost::filesystem

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-30 21:21:43

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:26:14 -0700, Delfin Rojas wrote

>... snip ...
> preprocessor definition. Then, boost::fylesystem::path could accept 
> std::basic_string<TCHAR> instead of std::basic_string<char>. That 
> would solve the problem and everybody would be happy ;)

I'm guessing it's a bit more complicated than that. In February Beman (author
of filesystem) was working on a proposal for this which was to be discussed at
the Sydney meeting.  See 

http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg60389.php

You can find a copy of it here:

http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1576.html

Apparently he didn't finish in time because he left internationalization as an
open issue (see the bottom of the previous link).  I'm not certain what's
happened to Beman -- he hasn't posted lately -- hopefully he or someone else
can update the state of the work.

Jeff