[SG16-Unicode] P1689: Encoding of filenames for interchange

Thiago Macieira thiago at macieira.org
Sat Sep 7 17:51:49 CEST 2019


On Saturday, 7 September 2019 08:28:00 PDT Lyberta wrote:
> > Having char = utf8 across all the major platforms would be an *enormous*
> > win. Please aid that effort.
> 
> Sure, but I think C++20 projects should not use char unless in the
> lowest levels when talking to OS.

And when talking to anything pre-C++20. Like any and all C libraries.

There will be a lot of casting from char8_t to char in the next decade.

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