N2007 (WG21) 06-0077 (J16)
PROPOSED LIBRARY ADDITIONS FOR CODE CONVERSION

P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
pjp@dinkumware.com

2006-04-15

Dinkumware has been marketing several character code conversion aids for a number of years, as part of a package of supplemental features we call CoreX. They have now been merged into our latest comprehensive product, the Dinkum Compleat Library. Based on the success of that package, we now feel confident in proposing two template classes from it for inclusion in a future standard C++ library.

We submitted these template classes earlier, first as N1683 and then as N1957, and met with several criticisms. Here are our responses to the most explicit remarks about wstring_convert: