> I believe, if I try hard enough, I can get C++ to convert from one
> encoding to another using features from <locale>, but I'm not sure.  I'm 
> guessing it would be overly optimistic to expect the assignment operator
> in std::basic_string<> to provide that conversion.

No chance. That wasn't what I meant, I just meant that you can use them as
is in 16-bit form with std::string if you're willing to accept that some
versions of some compilers won't let you.

I'm sure you could get <locale> to work, maybe, but noone I know has tried.

> > The worst part of this is not having string literals, I freely admit.
> 
> w_char doesn't work, eh?  

On Windows, yes. Occasionally a few other places. Not on Solaris or Linux.

> I have to wonder what a person would do if - may the High Ones forbid it -

> they actually wanted to use the DOM to model a document in, say, a word 
> processor.

Use Unicode, plain and simple. It's the touch points that create the
problems.

-- Scott


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