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 12:03:56

> Rodrigo Madera wrote:
>>     There are John Maddock's iterator adapters, those of the
>>     Boost.Unicode library under development that are similar to them,
>>     and there is also Boost.Locale, another library under development
>>     that is a frontend to ICU, that provides function to do conversions
>>     (but it works with memory buffers).
>>
>>
>> I see that Maddock's adapters does the job, but does it provide the 
>> reliability of ICU?
>
> They could result in undefined behaviour when given invalid UTF input at 
> the end of the string.
> So not very reliable, no.

Really?  That would be a bug, the intention is that they should always throw 
an exception when given invalid input.

Of course a more complete solution would always be welcome....

John.