From: Martin Trappel (0xCDCDCDCD_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-12 03:46:29
Mathieu Peyréga wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently writting an open source and portable (Win32 / OS X /
> Linux) software, and i'm using parts of boost libraries, especially for
> the issue described here :
>
> - boost serialization
> - boost filesystem
>
> At some point, i'm storing a directory name (as a std::string) into a
> xml file through boost serialization library.
>
> The encoding occurs on a windows platform, and as far as i can
> understand (i'm really new to all these character set issues) it seems
> to be done in win1252 character set.
>
If it's an xml file there is no 'seems'. An XML file always has a well
defined encoding or else it's tag-soup - or whatever the term :)
The filename in the std::string however may well be win1252, and I'd say
this is already a problem, because on Windows path-elements are Unicode
encoded and if you use a singlebyte character set you will always hit
problems sooner or later.
I recommend encoding the path elements as UTF-8 if you want to stick
with std::string.
> (...)
br,
Martin