[boost] [locale] Documentation correction

Subject: [boost] [locale] Documentation correction
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-17 17:09:17

The last bullet item on page libs/locale/doc/html/index.html says:

     Many standard libraries provide only the C and POSIX locales,
     thus GCC supports localization only under Linux. On all other
     platforms, attempting to create locales other than "C" or "POSIX"
     would fail.

Actually, locale("") works on most platforms, including PC-BSD and
Open Solaris, so needs to be added to the above list of locales that
do work.  Look at the trunk filesystem regression first test,
"locale_info", and click on the Pass link to see the output.
locale("") is working pretty much across the board, even on the Darwin
tests.

Mac OS X is of particular interest because by default locale("") does
fall, and the Apple folks have said in the past that they won't fix
it. It fails on my Mac mini in the default configuration. Presumably
the Darwin regression test machine has something beyond the default
configuration.

Also, would it be possible to use locales from the Apache library? See
http://stdcxx.apache.org/doc/stdlibref/locale.html#Table%C2%A021

--Beman