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

[Sohail Somani <sohail taggedtype net>]

Chris Vine wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:01:02 -0700
> Sohail Somani <sohail taggedtype net> wrote:
> > But yes, I need to figure out why the conversion is failing in the
> > first place rather than trying these hacks (ustring -> std::string).
>
> Conversions can fail for various reasons, but to start from the
> beginning have you set a locale of any kind which handles non-ascii
> characters?  In particular, have you called setlocale(LC_ALL,""), or the
> equivalent std::locale::global(std::locale(""))?  If you have not, the
> C locale will be used and any glibmm conversion will throw an exception
> if a byte of value >= 128 is met.

Yes, I have tried both.

> Incidentally, you don't need to make a std::string object, you can
> access the one in the Glib::ustring object with Glib::ustring::raw().
> (However, there was no need to use a Glib::ustring object at all in the
> example you originally gave, but probably it was just a cut-down
> example of something else.)

I'll go with cut-down example :-)

Thanks.

Sohail