Re: [Boost-users] Boost's direction regarding UTF8 -> UTF32 andUTF32-> UTF8

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost's direction regarding UTF8 -> UTF32 andUTF32-> UTF8
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-24 11:58:26

>> Actually regex doesn't need ICU for that - it uses the iterators in
>> boost/regex/pending/unicode_iterator.hpp most of the available
>> conversions are supported there I think.
>
> John, we use those iterators a lot now. Yet, it's been "pending" for
> many years. Isn't it about time for them to graduate from the "pending"
> state? :-)

Sigh.  Well I've been hoping that someone else would produce a "proper" 
Unicode library to take care of this...

John.