Re: [Boost-users] Unicode support

From: me22 (me22.ca_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-16 18:00:53

On 3/16/06, Calderon Hector <hhcalderon_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Is there any rationale for not supporting Unicode in some boost libraries
> (e.g. filesystem, program_options)?
>

Probably one of the main problems is that there's no de facto or de
jure standard for Unicode in C++.  As I understand it, however, the
new filesystem library will have support for wide characters.  There
may also be some worry about the portability of wide-character
filenames or options.

Of course most (all?) libraries will handle (in terms of storing and
regurgitating) UTF-8 fine, if you can arrange for the external
environment to produce and accept it.

~ Scott