Re: [boost] [nowide] Library Updates and Boost's brokenUTF-8 codecvt facet

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Peter Dimov wrote:

Artyom Beilis wrote:

We can create a "Separate" codecvt library with its own formal review and

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it would be ready in best case in a year...

One option is to put it into utility;

+1

another is to use a mini-review if the new codecvt library is an implementation of the standard <codecvt> interface.

+1 It seems pretty useless to me if it isn't an implementation of the standard <codecvt> interface.

std::codecvt_utf8 is not quite the same as boost::utf8_codecvt_facet, but on the other hand, from your previous message it seems that your utf8_codecvt_facet is not std::codecvt_utf8 but std::codecvt_utf8_utf16, or perhaps it's the latter when wchar_t is 16 bit and the former when it's 32 bit.

I'm assuming Artyom is proposing implementing codecvt where externT is always UTF-8 encoding, and internT encoding is UTF-32 for 32-bit wchar_t (e.g. many POSIX-like systems), UTF-16 for 16-bit wchar_t (e.g. many Windows-like system), and UTF-8 for 8-bit wchar_t (e.g. some embedded systems). --Beman