Re: [Boost-users] handling unicode strings / encodings?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] handling unicode strings / encodings?
From: Maróy Ákos (akos_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-25 11:45:38

Robert,

> I suspect this could be the source of the problem. I don't remember the
> details, but I do remember that using the codecvt facets as intended
> turned out to be a lot more intricate that it first appears. I had to
> pour over the appendices of Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming
> Language". Also there is a book by Langer which addresses this
> in detail. So I guess I would have to amend my previous statement
> "really easy" to "really easy - once you figure it out" 

:)

I'm reading Josuttis' C++ STL book, which also covers this issue, but so
far it's beyond me :(

thus, I have opted to use the utfcpp project found at
http://utfcpp.sourceforge.net/ , which I also found in the boost vault.

Akos