std::string and unicode

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:20:50 +0100 Declan McMullen <declan.mcmullen at gmail.com> wrote:

DM> This guy actually wrote two nice little functions
DM> http://www.kangmaman.com/node/131

 I think you could make it even more complicated but I must admit that at a
first glance I don't see how. I'd also strongly recommend deciding upon
your std::string encoding instead of blindly trying UTF-8 first and falling
back to ASCII later (and what happens if it's in Latin-1? or koi8-r?) --
and it also would be better if conversion in both directions were symmetric
which is not the case here. And I won't even mention nice pessimizations
like not passing strings via references and especially creating a temporary
object on a heap instead of just using wxConvUTF8...

 In short, don't use the code above.

 Regards,
VZ

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