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

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:54:38 -0700
Sohail Somani <sohail taggedtype net> wrote:
> Chris Vine wrote:
> > 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.

Possibly then your machine locale cannot handle the characters that you
are trying to feed to it (unless a narrow character codeset is UTF-8 it
is probably limited to around 200 different characters). If setting
your machine locale to UTF-8 works, that is most likely the reason.

Chris