My name is Shepherd, and I have recently taken an interest in helping out ThePhD’s Unicode work for C++. The end goal of being able to transcode out of the system encoding and other shenanigans has not been fully realized in a Standard’s document. However, I am pleased to say we have made significant advancements that should make 2021 a successful year for Unicode capabilities in C and C++.

It turns out there are two kinds of allocators in the world, and out of the Systems Programming languages we deal with here, C++ has the most special one!

JeanHeyd “ThePhD” Meneide co-hosted a CppCast episode with Aaron Ballman, Peter Brett, and the main host Rob Irving!