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
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