X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:37:38 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to set locale with C++ Message-ID: <20120209123738.GG23330@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F33AA60.6080704@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F33AA60.6080704@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Feb 9 12:13, marco atzeri wrote: > Attached a small example taken from Bruce Eckel Thinking in C++ > > On cygwin both this call > > cout.imbue(locale("en_US.UTF-8")); > > cout.imbue(locale("fr_FR.UTF-8")); > > raise exception > > "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' > what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid > Aborted (core dumped)" > > I could understand eventually the second one, but "English (US)" is > the current windows locale so I expected that at least "en_US.UTF-8" > is accepted. > > What I am missing ? This doesn't look like a Cygwin issue. The above error "locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid" points to some problem in the library implementing the locale call. The underlying plain C call setlocale should work fine. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple