Re: Interest in a Unicode library for Boost?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-10-26 04:08:18

On 10/25/19 6:11 PM, Zach Laine via Boost-users wrote:
> About 14 months ago I posted the same thing.  There was significant work 
> that needed to be done to Boost.Text (the proposed library), and I was a 
> bit burned out.
> 
> Now I've managed to make the necessary changes, and I feel the library 
> is ready for review, if there is interest.
> 
> This library, in part, is something I want to standardize.
> 
> It started as a better string library for namespace "std2", with minimal 
> Unicode support.  Though "std2" will almost certainly never happen now, 
> those string types are still in there, and the library has grown to also 
> include all the Unicode features most users will ever need.
> 
> Github: https://github.com/tzlaine/text
> Online docs: https://tzlaine.github.io/text
> 
> If you care about portable Unicode support, or even addressing the 
> embarrassment of being the only major production language with next to 
> no Unicode support, please have a look and provide feedback.
> 
> I gave a talk about this at C++Now in May 2018, and now it's a bit out 
> of date, as the library was not then finished.  It's three hours, so, 
> y'know, maybe skip it.  For completeness' sake:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944GjKxwMBo&index=7&list=PL_AKIMJc4roVSbTTfHReQTl1dc9ms0lWH
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2xMAqCZL8&list=PL_AKIMJc4roVSbTTfHReQTl1dc9ms0lWH&index=8
> 
> Zach

How is this related to Boost.Locale ? Conflict/Complement or ???

Robert Ramey