File stream names

[Fraser Ross]

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?

Fraser.

 

[Victor Bazarov]

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?

I believe you meant to ask in 'comp.std.c++' (where the rationales for
standard features are discussed).

V

 

[Bo Persson]

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

 

[James Kanze]

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?

The most obvious is that it isn't supported in most OS's.