Subject: Re: [boost] Silly Boost.Locale default narrowstringencodinginWindows
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-28 12:36:13


Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

> Would you like to be the one telling Norwegian student Åshild Bjørnson
> that you favor the notion that she should waste hours or days installing
> Boost and some other nix-oriented library and use 'gettext', in order to
> be able to display her name in her first C++ program?

No, of course not. Our original topic was Boost.Locale, not the first
program of a Norwegian student. But, consider the topic changed, and please
do let me know what you suggest said student should do.