Re: [Boost-users] utf8_codecvt_facet

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] utf8_codecvt_facet
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-11 12:16:40

I think that utf8_codecvt_facet.is used in both packages.  This
came about as we didn't want to repeat the code, but then it was
not officially reviewed.  The serialization library includes test and
I believe a documentation page for it.

Robert Ramey

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Patrick Horgan wrote:
>
>> utf8_codecvt is in libserialization and in libprogram_options
>
> Not really. boost/program_options/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp only
> includes boost/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp, with some setup.
>
>> --I thought
>> it was moving to utility?  Is there one supported spot?  Is there any
>> documentation that talks about what to include and link?
>
> The only documentation in the comment in
> boost/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp
>
>> The .hpp file is still in boost/detail, boost/archive/detail,
>> boost/program_options,boost_filesystem/src, and
>> libs/iostreams/test/detail.  Guess it's not cleaned up yet?   Or
>> maybe people didn't want cross dependencies?
>
> Those are *different* .hpp files -- each forwarding the the one in
> boost/detail.
>
>> Anyway I need to either use it or write one;)  I'm not doing
>> serialization or program_options (yet, who knows, just starting the
>> project).  I also need to be able to be able to deal with UTF-16, I
>> don't suppose there's a codecvt facet for that, huh?
>
> If you're on windows, wchar_t is only 16-bit anyway. If you are on a
> different operating system, I don't know any code in Boost that will
> convert UTF-16
> into a sequence of 32-bit wchar_t. However, the internet has a pile
> of such converters and this topic was discussed on this mailing list,
> too.
>
> - Volodya