I think it's a good idea and I was planning to suggest exactly that during
the last SG16 telecon but unfortunately had to leave early and forgot to
follow-up by email.

- Victor

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM Alisdair Meredith via SG16 <
sg16_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Earlier in the C++26 cycle, we opted to deprecate the facets:
> codecvt<char16_t, char8_t, mbstate_t>
> codecvt<char32_t, char8_t, mbstate_t>
> codecvt_byname<char16_t, char8_t, mbstate_t>
> codecvt_byname<char32_t, char8_t, mbstate_t>
>
>
> Now we have agreed to remove the previously deprecated facets:
> codecvt<char16_t, char, mbstate_t>
> codecvt<char32_t, char, mbstate_t>
> codecvt_byname<char16_t, char, mbstate_t>
> codecvt_byname<char32_t, char, mbstate_t>
>
> Should we consider removing all these facets in one hit?
> It would seem a nice way to clear the decks for whatever
> Unicode support we plan to develop for C++29.
>
> At this stage, removal would mean filing an NB comment once
> the CD goes out to ballot, and I would not be prepared to write
> such a comment unless this group were already in favor.
>
> AlisdairM
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