From: "Jon Hanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For these functions to behave correctly , i need to set locale to xxx.UTF-8 > > As solaris has en_US.UTF8 (w/o installing any extra support) , there is no > > problem. > [snip] > > But i am having problem especially in windows, as i can't find a locale > > supporting this. > > i tried changing windows code page to utf8 using _setmbcp(65001), but it > > didn't work > > as the functions i am using is locale dependent. > > In windows the naming convention for locale's is different, although you were on > the right track with the _setmbcp call. > > The windows name for "en_US.UTF8" is "English_United States.65001", ".65001" > will be UTF-8 in the default locale.
It would be good to say that this depends on the compiler tool you use, and its version... There's nothing less portable _on Windows_ than the "standard C/C++ library", which try to mimic more or less successfully what is offered on Unix/Linux and other POSIX systems... The only stable APIs which are cross-compiler compatible on Windows are the Win32 APIs, which is guaranteed to depend only on the hosting OS version, but not also across the many compilers available for this platform... So unless the developer sticks at a particular compiler and version for Windows, using the standard library to perform locale-related work will remain highly non-portable. Almost all C/C++ sources for Windows then depend on a particular compiler version, and there's no guarantee the same source code will compiler and work identically with another compiler, even from the same compiler provider.
