Re: [Boost-users] [bjam] Building Regex with static runtime linking

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [bjam] Building Regex with static runtime linking
From: Max (more4less_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-14 20:26:59

> >>
> >> In that case, you are restricted to using the same msvc runtime that
ICU
> >> uses (assuming you are committed to using regex with ICU - regex and
> >> Win32
> >> provide passable Unicode support without it via boost::wregex).
> >
> > That means I can get unicode support without ICU in the Win32
environment?
> > If that's true, then what is ICU for?
> 
> It depends how complete you want the Unicode support, have you seen:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/unic
> ode.html ?
> 
> Basically on Win32 character classification and upper/lower case
conversion
> works OK in wregex, but Unicode specific character classes like [[:lu:]]
> can't be used, likewise nothing in icu.hpp (so UTF8 support for example).
> 
> HTH, John.
> 

Thanks for the explanation.

Best, Max