on 1/5/03 10:21 AM, Beman Dawes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a conversation with Bill Plauger, Howard Hinnant, and several other > library implementors at the last C++ committee meeting, and we agreed on a > possible approach to the conversion problem. Conversions between wide and > narrow names has always been the hold up. No one has been willing to step > forward and say "Of all the possible ways to do the conversion, here is how > libraries should do it."
Rather than using simple path specifier (which I think are a very limited way to refer to a local resource) - why not make the path syntax be URI based? There is already a W3C proposal for extending URIs to be fully international friendly (IRIs) - <http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/>. This would also allow for relative references, remote references, authentication, versioned file systems (such as WebDAV <http://www.webdav.org/>), and query references to database file systems. I would rather see going with an existing standard than inventing yet another way to refer to resources with international names. Sean -- Sean Parent Sr. Computer Scientist II Advanced Technology Group Adobe Systems Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
