C++ std::basic_string/char_traits specialization

Question

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std::basic_string specialization and Circumventing template specialization

I tried the solution from std::basic_string specialization, but the problem is that CustomChar is a typedef for wchar_t and I have redefinition(conflict with specialization from std). How may I avoid usage of chart_traits when I'm not allowed to change CustomChar typedef?

Answer 1

You could use Boost's/C++0x's disable_if to disable if there are known previous instantiations, like in the case of char and wchar_t.

Answer 2

This is the answer provided by Charles Bailey as a comment:

You can supply an alternative traits class (i.e. something other than a std::char_traits specialization) while still using wchar_t as the charT template parameter to std::basic_string