Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Serialization broken for wchar_t

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Serialization broken for wchar_t
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-12-19 11:23:52

I'm aware of this problem and have had much difficulty in addressing it. 
  I would say stick with 1.57 until I can get it fixed.  Hopefully this 
will be for 1.61

On 12/19/15 5:25 AM, gast128 wrote:
> following code used to work in boost 1.57
>
> void f()
> {
>      std::wstring wstr = L"\u20AC";
>
>      std::wofstream ofs(L"c:\\temp\\bla.xml");
>
>      boost::archive::xml_woarchive oa(ofs);
>
>      oa << boost::serialization::make_nvp("tag", wstr);
> }
>
> However in 1.60 it gives an exception, since it cannot convert the uniocde
> character. It seems that in 1.57 in xml_woarchive_impl the
> utf8_codecvt_facet is set, but this has been disabled in 1.60. What is the
> solution / workaround?
>