id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
1836	bug in serializing wide character strings	Jeff Faust <jeff@…>	Robert Ramey	"We've discovered an issue Boost has writing and reading wide character
strings (wchar_t* and std::wstrings) to non-wide character file streams
(std::ifstream and std::ofstream).  The issue stems from the fact that
wide characters are written and read as a sequence of characters (in
text_oarchive_impl.ipp and text_iarchive_impl.ipp, respectively).  For
text streams, an EOF character terminates the reading of a file on Windows.
Some wide characters have EOF (value = 26 decimal) as one of the bytes so
reading that byte causes early termination of the read.  We have worked
around the issue by deriving our own input and output archives from
text_i|oarchive_impl<Archive> and overriding load_override() and
save_override for std::wstring and wchar_t*.  Our implementation just
sequences through the wide characters and writes them 1 by 1 as
wchar_t to the archive.  This isn't very elegant and is even less readable
in the file than the current implementation but does resolve the problem. 

Although the test test_simple_class does test wstrings, it only uses characters 'a'-'z' which does not expose this problem.
"	Bugs	assigned	To Be Determined	serialization	Boost 1.34.1	Problem		wstring wchar_t	jeff@… Sohail Somani