I would think that deserialization would be an operation on a Range of std::byte or int8_t, where you would read out code points depending on the encoding. Possibly with either replacement or failure. But until you have code points, it's not text, it's raw octets. [Are we still supporting the hypothetical 9 bit byte computer in the standard?] <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 07:34 Martinho Fernandes <<a href="mailto:rmf@rmf.io">rmf@rmf.io</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" id="gmail_block_quote0">
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On 19.06.18 11:53, Lyberta wrote:
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<pre>The proposed text_view takes TextEncoding and there are
std::utf16[be,le]_encodings that satisfy TextEncoding. This is breaking
abstraction and making user code more complicated.
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examples?
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<pre>text_view and
code_point_sequence shouldn't take encoding schemes as template
parameters, only encoding forms. Essentially, TextEncoding is as
horrible as std::basic_string in its design.
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explanation here, and it isn't clear to me why not.
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