Re: Glib::ustring tradeoffs?

[Vinzenz 'evilissimo' Feenstra <mailinglist evilissimo-softdev de>]

Dear Matthias,

Since there is a operator std::string() in Glib::ustring you will be 
abled using everything what wants a std::string, but I don't think that 
neither  the algorithms nor boost::filesystem will work with a utf8 
encoding. So you might use locale_from_utf and locale_to_utf functions 
to convert between encodings if it possible at all.

Best Regards,

Vinzenz 'evilissimo' Feenstra

Matthias Kaeppler schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> I am considering to completely remove std::string from my application 
> in favor of Glib::ustring, but I stumbled across some problems:
> For one, I am using STL algos such as std::lexicographical_compare. 
> Will they work with a Glib::ustring?
> Also I am using boost::filesystem, which is based around std::string. 
> I guess it doesn't make sense to use both the functions from 
> boost::filesystem AND Glib::ustring, because boost::fs will probably 
> break as soon as I'm feeding it with Unicode strings?
>
> What are your thoughts about this?
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
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