Re: [Boost-users] Fwd: Lexical cast between narrow and wide strings

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Fwd: Lexical cast between narrow and wide strings
From: Adam Wulkiewicz (adam.wulkiewicz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-04 19:16:08

Andrew Marlow wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to post my question. I expected to be 
> able to convert between narrow and wide strings using boost lexical 
> cast but it fails to compile. I suppose that conversion is not 
> supplied or supported. It would be really useful to me if it was. I am 
> developing on win32 for wince and on wince there seeem to be many 
> places where wide strings are required, especially when using the 
> win32 API.  Is there any chance this could be added to boost?  I 
> checked using boost 1.55.0

Have you checked Boost.Locale?
E.g. 
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/locale/doc/html/charset_handling.html

Regards,
Adam