RE: [gtkmm] struct ustring::SequenceToString<In,char> : public st d::string

["Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen inav net>]

> I would also like to hear what the rational behind Glib::ustring is.....

Gnome2/Gtk2 support multiple character sets via Unicode and Pango. 
std::string is for 8-bit encodings only [*].


[*] ... okay, you could make a basic_string<wchar> and hack Unicode into
C++'s string class that way, but it'd be ug-lee.  Glib::ustring is
probably a better option.
 
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