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Re: [SG16-Unicode] Questions about some corner cases of proposed std::basic_text encoding implementation

From: Lyberta <lyberta_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 03:38:00 +0000
Lyberta:
> JeanHeyd Meneide:
>> Absolutely, the default should be basic_string.
>
> I disagree but I didn't write a proposal yet so we'll talk later.

Although here's one of the big arguments why std::basic_string is really
badly designed:

http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/084.htm

And then if we note that Unicode code units have almost zero semantics,
we can remove 80% of the API.


Received on 2019-11-09 04:44:43