Re: [boost] Reminder: Review for Zach's parsing library starts on Feb 19th

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:17 AM Tom Honermann via Boost wrote:

Now, Zach, as a long time SG16 participant and contributor, you know full well that wchar_t doesn't imply Unicode :)

I despise wchar_t and avoid it completely in public interfaces. I'll drop down to using it inside an implementation, but my functions which accept Unicode strings use char, and I perform the conversion in the implementation even when doing so has a performance cost (such as on Windows which wants a "wide string"). I try to offer only utf-8 as the choice of encoding for Unicode (again even on Windows). It's a thankless job but someone has to protect the world from the ugliness of wide characters. Thanks