Re: [boost] [locale] [filesystem] Windows local 8 bit encoding

Subject: Re: [boost] [locale] [filesystem] Windows local 8 bit encoding
From: Artyom Beilis (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-01 10:59:29

>> Using Boost.Locale you can convert to locale encoding of a given

>> std::locale() object generated with Boost.Locale.
>>
>> boost::locale::generator allows to select legacy "ANSI" encoding
>> instead of UTF-8 to be default upon creation of the locale object that
>> corresponds to the system locale.
>>
>> This object you can use with to_utf and from_utf functions.
>
>Unfortunately that does not work under Microsoft Windows as 
>  generator locale_generator ;
>  locale_generator.use_ansi_encoding( true ) ;
>  std::locale const current_locale = locale_generator.generate( name ) ;
>needs a name. 
>

Similar to creating std::locale("") the generation 
locale_generator.generate("") gives the expected result, i.e.
system default locale.


See: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/libs/locale/doc/html/locale_gen.html



>Best regards
>
>Bjoern.
>

Regards


Artyom Beilis