Re: [Boost-users] General C++: Class Method Signatures Miss-Match

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] General C++: Class Method Signatures Miss-Match
From: Etienne Philip Pretorius (icewolfhunter_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-01 11:38:53

Rodrigo Madera wrote:
> I know this is not the best source, but it will shed some light:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wt3s3k55(VS.80).aspx
> 
> You shouldn't be creating your own wide string class unless you have a 
> really good reason not to use wstring.
> 
> Regards,
> Madera
> 

Thank you.

I figured it out.
When I called the substr method of unicode::string is was accessing 
std::basic_string<unicode_point>::substr and therefore returning 
std::basic_string<unicode_point> type. I will just override that with my 
own class method.

Wide chars as far as I know are different from platform to platform. 
Microsoft uses 16 bit wide chars while *nix uses 32 bit wide chars. And 
for unicode I need at least 21 bits.

Etienne