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

[Sohail Somani <sohail taggedtype net>]

Indeed. The magic for setlocale on Windows escapes me (btw, it was 
supposed to be setlocale(LC_ALL,""), not setlocale(LC_ALL,0)). According 
to MSDN the *only* things you can't set through setlocale are UTF-8 and 
UTF-7. Wonderful...

Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> Then i guess you would somehow need to set an UTF-8 locale (setting 
> LC_ALL to 0 you set the C or (i think) ANSI X3.4-1986 locale).
>
> 2008/7/13 Sohail Somani <sohail taggedtype net 
> <mailto: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> <mailto: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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