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List:       boost-users
Subject:    Re: [Boost-users] std::string to std::wstring
From:       Maik Beckmann <maikbeckmann () gmx ! de>
Date:       2007-01-29 8:18:38
Message-ID: 1170058718.7341.7.camel () localhost
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Am Samstag, den 27.01.2007, 16:03 -0500 schrieb John Christopher:
> Hi,
> 
> The reason I asked is that while I have been using
> >>          std::string  a;
> >>          std::wstring b( a.begin(),a.end());
> >>          std::string  c(b.begin(),b.end());
> for a while now, I have started wondering if I was not shooting myself in 
> the foot without knowing... I am no Unicode expert and Boost facilities in 
> that area would certainly give me some confidence. Boost is nice also 
> because codes are visited by skilled and experienced programmers and I am 
> glad to benefit from that... :) More generally, I am still struggling on 
> which string class I should use: std::string, std::wstring, some custom 
> class...  Tobias, just like everybody I guess, I do share the idea that a 
> boost::unicode would be a really nice addition.
> 

Hello

Here is a recent post at boost-devel about unicode support
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/151673/focus=151686

The related library: 
    http://utfcpp.sourceforge.net/


I never used it, but it looks good to me.

HTH Maik



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