[RFC 0/2] C++11 codecvt specializations.

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 25/04/14 23:44 +0200, Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I started implementing a patch to add the codecvt specializations required by
>the C++11 standard (22.4.1.4.3/Table 81 [locale.codecvt]) and the standard
>code conversion facets (22.5 [locale.stdcvt]).

Excellent, I have implementations of std::wstring_convert and
std::wbuffer_convert that I have not been able to test without the new
codecvt specializations.

>The implementation requires some code to convert between UTF-32, UTF-8,
>UTF-16.  I couldn't find any code for it in libstdc++.

There is <ext/codecvt_specializations.h>

> I looked into gnulib
>but it seems the conversion is done through iconv.  Which might not be the
>best choice if the codecs are known in advance.  I had some existing code for
>such a conversion which I adopted and added in the patch.

I was assuming we would just use iconv.

I'll review the rest when I get a chance.