Re: [Boost-users] UTF-16

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] UTF-16
From: plarroy (plarroy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-16 04:39:31

Hi

My approach is using std::string, etc. all the time and using UTF-8 
internally, only converting to other charsets when it's needed.

I use IBM icu library and made a boost::iostreams filter to convert 
encoding, once it's done takes a lot of complexity away, I use it like:

           // setup a conversion from charset to utf-8
            filt_streamb.push(ucnv_filter(charset.c_str(), "utf-8"));
            istream is(&filt_streamb);

Perhaps there's interest to push this charset conversion into 
boost::iostreams filters examples.

Regards.

Robert Dailey wrote:
> Oh, I also forgot to mention, I am also using boost::filesystem::path. I
> guess this means I need to use wchar_t everywhere (std::wstring,
> boost::filesystem::wpath, etc) and just let wxWidgets do the
> encoding/decoding? If I don't have to do any encoding/decoding myself, then
> there really is no need for a special object. But just in case I would like
> to have the encoding/decoding abilities.
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi everyone,
>> I did a bit of googling to see if Boost 1.39 as any portable support for
>> UTF-16 encoded strings, but I did not find any. I'm currently using
>> wxWidgets in my application, and I need a decent string object to use. I
>> know that wxWidgets has UTF-16 string support through wxString, however I do
>> not want to expose this object in my interfaces. I want to remain as
>> abstracted away from wxWidgets as possible. Having said that, if someone
>> could tell me if there is any existing UTF-16 string support in Boost, I'd
>> appreciate it. I did not find anything in the vault, sandbox, or trunk in
>> Boost.
>>
>> If boost has no such string object, could someone give me a head start on
>> where to look? Thanks.
>>
>>     
>
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