From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-20 17:44:48
At 08:47 AM 10/20/2004, Peter Dimov wrote:
>... How can the user
>obtain the underlying element sequence to persist it somewhere or to
>pass it to an external library?
I'd like to underline this requirement. There must be the equivalent of
c_str() to allow retrieval of the underlying element sequence.
Alternately, if the underlying element sequence is hidden, then there would
have to be a whole series of functions to get copies. utf8(), utf16(), etc.
--Beman