Re: [boost] Silly Boost.Locale default narrowstringencodinginWindows

Subject: Re: [boost] Silly Boost.Locale default narrowstringencodinginWindows
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-29 12:59:16

Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

> But, you may ask, what about Alf's program, then, it's the same for 
> heaven's sake?
>
> Well, let's check:
>
> <example>
> P:\test> chcp 1252
> Active code page: 1252
>
> P:\test> a
> Blåbærsyltetøy! 日本国 кошка!

Neat trick. Apparently, _O_U8TEXT switches to Unicode mode when stdout is a 
console. Let me try...

| C:\Projects\testbed>chcp
| Active code page: 437
|
| C:\Projects\testbed>release\testbed.exe
| Blåbærsyltetøy! 日本国 кошка!

Yeah.

| C:\Projects\testbed>release\testbed.exe | more
| Blåbærsyltetøy! 日本国 кошка!

Well. You can't have everything. :-)

| C:\Projects\testbed>release\testbed.exe > testbed.txt
|
| C:\Projects\testbed>type testbed.txt
| Blåbærsyltetøy! 日本国 кошка!
|
| C:\Projects\testbed>chcp 65001
| Active code page: 65001
|
| C:\Projects\testbed>type testbed.txt
| Blåbærsyltetøy! 日本国 кошка!

Of course, chcp 65001 breaks everything and more. Not that more worked in 
the first place. :-)