What isn't? Without boost::format and boost::algorithm, std::string is a major pain in the ass to work with. Even including those two, there's still the distin

What isn't? Without boost::format and boost::algorithm, std::string is a major pain in the ass to work with. Even including those two, there's still the distinct lack of unicode-awareness (and no, wstring doesn't help, and neither does "let's pretend it's all utf8 underneath".) And then there is the institutional problem that nobody agrees on whether, and if so how, to use std::string in their libraries' API's. But on the bright side, string handling in C++ is not as painful today as it was in 2005, things do get better.