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Re: File stream names

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From "Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: File stream names
Date Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:52:03 +0200
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Fraser Ross wrote:
> The standard library allows file name types of char const * and
> std::string for opening file based streams.  Is there a reason for
> omitting the wide character types?
>

One reason is that nobody has come up with a set of semantics that 
everybody else can agree on.

Things like, what does a wide string mean on a filesystem with narrow 
char file names?


Bo Persson

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File stream names "Fraser Ross" <z@z.com> - 2011-07-29 10:48 +0100
  Re: File stream names Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-07-29 09:17 -0400
  Re: File stream names "Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk> - 2011-07-29 16:52 +0200
  Re: File stream names James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-30 12:16 -0700

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