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

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:25 PM Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

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

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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.

Not going to argue with that at all. I also never use it. I do think that in this case, to have that be the only character type the API doesn't accept would be too weird. Zach