Re: std::cout << Glib::ustring(utf8_literal) throws exception

[Sohail Somani <sohail taggedtype net>]

Yes, you are right. Copying the ustring to a std::string gets rid of the 
error but still doesn't work right because it is interpreted as ASCII in 
the console.

Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> It should be noted here that Glib::ustring::operator<< performs a 
> conversion from UTF-8 to the currenty set locale (yeah it's weird and 
> unexpected) and thus works intransparent and produces sideeffects; i 
> don't know the implication of this on Windows but i'm willing to be that 
> that's the reason for your problem here. You could try copying the 
> ustring to an std::string before using << and then feed the std::string 
> to cout.
>
> 2008/7/13 Sohail Somani <sohail taggedtype net 
> <mailto:sohail taggedtype net>>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     The following code works fine on Linux but dies on Windows when run
>     in the console:
>
>     #include <gtkmm.h>
>
>     int main()
>     {
>      setlocale(LC_ALL,0);
>      // Should output aleph
>      std::cout << Glib::ustring("\xd7\x90") << std::endl
>     }
>
>     The error is: "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input"
>
>     Has anyone tried UTF-8 with Glib on Windows? What else do I need to do?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Sohail
>
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