Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc] Request Feedback for Boost.Ustr Unicode String Adapter
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-11 07:41:48
On 11 August 2011 12:03, Artyom Beilis <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> The problem is policy the problem is Boost just can't decide once
> and forever that std::string is UTF-8...
Even if there was a consensus within boost, that isn't feasible. We
don't own std::string, so we don't have a say in what it represents.
There's a lot of existing code which is not based on that assumption -
we can't just wish it out of existence and boost should be compatible
with it.