Re: [Boost-users] UTF-16

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] UTF-16
From: Robert Dailey (rcdailey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-22 15:25:27

Problem with that is that std::string::length() no longer provides a
meaningful value. It will count each byte is 1 character.

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Robert Dailey

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:39 AM, plarroy <plarroy_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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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