id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 922,Lexical cast and wide characters,brey,nasonov,"{{{ It would be nice to make lexical_cast be handle to translate through means other than a char-width string. One way to address this is follows: template Target lexical_cast(Source arg) { std::basic_stringstream interpreter; ... Other options, such as using traits to try to deduce E from the target type automatically, would be fine, too. Think of the above suggestion as a starting point; however, it would plug what it currently a hole. This feature request is derived from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/message/10937 }}}",Feature Requests,closed,,lexical_cast,None,Optimization,fixed,,kevlin@…