From 6416844386378168259 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,40bc29384a77c552 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-07 21:28:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Edward Diener" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Messages facet and wide character filename Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 04:27:35 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <3caa1ba0$0$9888$4c41069e@reader1.ash.ops.us.uu.net> <3cb07ec7$1@news1.homechoice.co.uk> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1018240060 mail2news:5539 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 19:35:54 PDT Lines: 39 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:10428 "nmtop40" wrote in message news:3cb07ec7$1@news1.homechoice.co.uk... > > In a previous post I brought up the situation, which may be seen as > another > > problem but which I see as related, that the standard exception hierarchy > > always returns a string of chars for its What() message and suggested that > > the hierarchy be templatized ( like basic_string itself ) on a character > > type so that wide character exceptions would return a string of wchar_t > for > > its What() message. > > There is no law that exceptions you throw have to be std::exception, and > even > if you do you can derive another class from it that has a const wchar_t * > wwhat() > method. I have already done that but I still belive that the std::exception hierarchy should support wide character What() strings. > I agree about filenames though. Thanks, but I believe P.J.Plauger who answered my original post decided to bail out when I suggested that a change should be made to the C++ standard library in that regard. From both my posts, I gather that to ask for a change in the C++ standard, one has to make a Proposal on this NG somehow. Of course in another previous post I suggested that a means to make a formal proposal be specified and I was told to do so on this NG. Unfortunately I do not know the magic words to accomplish this and was evidently relying on just reason and discussion to do so. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]