Re: [boost] [system] locale issues

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-21 03:04:23

Oleg Abrosimov wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> The C++ committee accepted what is essentially Boost.System for
>> C++0x. See
>> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2241.html
>> for the final proposal.
>
> Looks nice. With one issue:
> This document has following wording:
>
> virtual string message(error_code::value_type ev) const=0;
>
>     Returns: A string that describes the error condition denoted by
> ev.
>
>     [Note: The intent is to return a locale sensitive string that
> describes the error corresponding to ev.  --end note.]

FWIW, I've already mentioned this to Beman in an off-line conversation. I 
never got any real feedback on that particular point though.

I'm all for the addition of locale overloads of the message related methods.

/ Johan