Is the locale in question actually installed? pkg install pkg:/locale/en
Try it. Apostolos Syropoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Today someone posted a message to the gcc-help mailing list. He complained >because he could not use Unicode characters in a C++ program. He posted a >program and some list members suggested a modification. The modified program >follows: > >#include <iostream> >#include <fstream> >#include <string> >using namespace std; >int main() { > wstring ws2 = L"Euro:\x20ac"; > wofstream out("unicode.txt"); > out.imbue(locale("el_GR.UTF-8")); > out << ws2<< endl; >} > >I have no idea what platform he uses but I get the following error >message when running the g++ generated binary: > >terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' > what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid >Abort (core dumped) > >But when I compile with solstudio the program terminates normally >but file unicode.txt is empty (i.e., its size is zero). On Linux >this program runs just fine and creates a file that contains the >Euro character. According to another poster to gcc-helo, on MacOS >people get exactly the same error. I guess something is wrong, but >I have no idea what's wrong. BTW, I have tried to use en_US.UTF-8 >instead of el_GR.UTF-8 but this did not make any difference. > >A.S. > > >---------------------- >Apostolos Syropoulos >Xanthi, Greece > >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
