220 10540 article Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ville Voutilainen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals Subject: Re: Unicode support in the Standard Library Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 18:13:30 +0300 Lines: 18 Approved: news@gmane.org Message-ID: References: <4ef82544-cd98-4488-8230-88ddaea78562@isocpp.org> <002D029C-6783-4A62-8CC4-B32B7BE8B23D@gmail.com> <01f2cc36-e743-4782-891e-c074dc072c7f@isocpp.org> <1d79df40-3313-4241-a9b8-d9364d68d327@isocpp.org> Reply-To: std-proposals@isocpp.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399562019 863 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2014 15:13:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 15:13:39 +0000 (UTC) To: std-proposals@isocpp.org Original-X-From: std-proposals+bncBC5JHI7A7ALRBGV6V2NQKGQERNO5SRI@isocpp.org Thu May 08 17:13:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-qg0-f72.google.com ([209.85.192.72]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WiQ0q-0004KW-B7 for gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2014 17:13:32 +0200 Original-Received: by mail-qg0-f72.google.com with SMTP id q108sf5394715qgd.3 for ; Thu, 08 May 2014 08:13:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=a4RC2RyQD5xgRpfQSWUu8CavapPDOV1jjZmTaGSRmUo=; b=MZkKe06LKHBuClM7ezq5b6qmfuoPYEdic7AvkGYa7cPxNcLwMJUJO/YiaGDlLagWxE l1M5SZuSDTUE3gTIQlVaKd64joZHy3FT3NQzba/uBVaACUtW5gUspZJOy+1DPeBZqnKT +0Zkj0NqEVHqkjQcwZanuSYbqO3utgbLf7GOddEc4BHE4F2KJQ+MtwBsRt17Eclv1b+o F9cClxe0jWDAOSq/4CyHtEOxZEeV1134luhGvCDGsJ7hfcmHY6OQ3efQqN4zN/Ag3kqi IExbBleR7qxTSCiHrjRoPBvKcvezoMtoULTtdp1FIxCGmK32shyh+lxoD5TNsLrL7RIw 3Ilg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQljViuUHbN+ZD5MTgjf5/TWTBWJ3LBMiymGgHPs4NUkpyWESPw+egjf85Hn1CvlnyKfLfA+ X-Received: by 10.58.142.135 with SMTP id rw7mr1932229veb.14.1399562011472; Thu, 08 May 2014 08:13:31 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: std-proposals@isocpp.org Original-Received: by 10.140.42.20 with SMTP id b20ls3909287qga.5.gmail; Thu, 08 May 2014 08:13:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.229.220.197 with SMTP id hz5mr5848479qcb.9.1399562010669; Thu, 08 May 2014 08:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from mail-qc0-x236.google.com (mail-qc0-x236.google.com [2607:f8b0:400d:c01::236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m9si633242qge.71.2014.05.08.08.13.30 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 08 May 2014 08:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ville.voutilainen@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c01::236 as permitted sender) client-ip=2607:f8b0:400d:c01::236; Original-Received: by mail-qc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id e16so3048349qcx.13 for ; Thu, 08 May 2014 08:13:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.80.40 with SMTP id b37mr5517967qgd.98.1399562010518; Thu, 08 May 2014 08:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.224.181.5 with HTTP; Thu, 8 May 2014 08:13:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1d79df40-3313-4241-a9b8-d9364d68d327@isocpp.org> X-Original-Sender: ville.voutilainen@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ville.voutilainen@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c01::236 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=ville.voutilainen@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:10540 Archived-At: On 8 May 2014 18:06, Guy Davidson wrote: > The fundamental problem here is that the basic_string class currently only > accommodates fixed width encoding. UTF-8 and UTF-16 are variable width > encodings (UTF-32 is also fixed width). std::u16string is only fit for basic_string accommodates variable width encodings fine. What it doesn't provide is access to the actual characters rather than raw bytes, and adding access to to characters should not require changing basic_string, or char_traits. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/group/std-proposals/. .