"Edward Diener"
David Abrahams wrote:
IIRC some people agreed with you, and some didn't. No?
That is true, but I would say that those people who were part of the C++ standard committee generally didn't. In particular Mr. Plauger didn't, and he seems to be a leading force behind internationalization efforts on the commitee.
I don't think he is. There really aren't many internationalization efforts AFAICT.
I received a strong feeling that the committee had already rejected the argument previously to add implementation defined wide character file name support to the standard library, and that no argument could change their mind.
Take care not to interpret one or two peoples' strongly-stated opinions as the judgement of the committee as a whole.
What still bothers me is how clear my argument was and how much resistance existed to it. Hopefully my argument, and that of others on the NG who also argued for the support, will lead to adding it to the C++ standard library in the future.
Not likely. As I've said over and over; proposals and follow-through get stuff added. Arguments on newsgroups typically do not. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com