Re: [boost] filesystem::wpath and Linux

From: Alexei Alexandrov (alexei.alexandrov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-15 12:24:43

Johan Ström wrote:
> 
> Thanks guys! Now it is working fine on Linux (with LANG=en_US.utf8 at  
> least). I put my utf8_facet inside a shared_ptr that lives throught  
> my app so thats solved.
> However, on OS X it still wont work, not sure why.. When I do  
> fs::wpath_traits::imbue( loc ); I get an  
> "locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid" exception.
> I'm running with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 here, which (according to locale in  
> console) is fine.
> 

Was looking through the boost archives and decided to reply this old 
message. I had similar (somewhat) problems with boost::filesystem::wpath 
(Linux x86, gcc 3.4.6 compiler) and locale interaction. The UTF-8 facet 
from the boost itself worked fine for me but somehow I couldn't get it 
working with the standard system environment locale. I would just failed 
to convert strings and valgrind said that there are some uninitialized 
reads or something.

I investigated it but no luck. I stopped my investigations when we 
decided to limit our product support to UTF-8 locales only.

Not sure this helps - just for a record. You can search the boost 
archives for messages from me with "filesystem" in the subject - there 
is pretty detailed description of the problem there.

-- 
Alexei Alexandrov