 documents thinking early in the V3 development 
process, and is intended to serve historical purposes. It is not updated to 
reflect the current state of the library.</p>

<h2><a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>

<p>During the review of Boost.Filesystem.V2 (Internationalization), Peter Dimov 
suggested that the<code> basic_path</code> class template was unwieldy, and that a single 
path type that accommodated multiple character types and encodings would be more 
flexible. Although I wasn't willing