Re: Do wcout and wcin work with GCC?

["Alex J. Dam" <alexjotadam at yahoo dot com dot br>]

  OK, you guys need not tell me why it's not working on my system.
  I just wish to know whether it should work or if it's not working
only on my system.

  thanks

  Alex

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:54:20 -0300, Alex J. Dam <alexjotadam@yahoo.com.br> 
wrote:

>    My system was built (mostly) according to LFS 4.0 on an AMD Athlon.
>    I don't know which packages' versions are relevant. My glibc is 2.2.5,
> g++ is 3.3.1.
>
>    Alex
>
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:43:04 -0600, <lrtaylor@micron.com> wrote:
>
> > What platform are you trying this on?  Wide character support may 
> > depend on the platform as well as GCC.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lyle Taylor
> > IS Applications
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alex J. Dam [mailto:alexjotadam@yahoo.com.br]
> > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 12:28 PM
> > To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> > Subject: Do wcout and wcin work with GCC?
> >
> >
> >   Hi,
> >
> >   I would like to use C++ as my primary language for computer
> > programming, but I'm having some problems dealing with
> > multi-byte strings in g++.
> >   How can I make wcin and wcout work? Whenever I read a string
> >  from the console the string is truncated at the first non-ASCII
> > character. When I'm writing to wcout, the string is also
> > truncated.
> >   I've tried imbue(), setlocale(), etc. but it didn't solve my
> > problem.
> >   My locale is pt_BR.UTF-8, my gcc and g++ are version 3.3.1.
> >   EXAMPLE:
> >
> > #include <iostream>
> > #include <string>
> > #include <locale>
> >
> > using namespace std;
> >
> > int main(){
> >    locale l("pt_BR.UTF-8");
> >    setlocale(LC_ALL, "pt_BR.UTF-8");
> >    locale::global(l);
> >    wcout.imbue(l);
> >    wcin.imbue(l);
> >    wstring s;
> >    wcin >> s;
> >    wcout << s.length() << endl;
> > }
> >
> > Some output:
> > $ ./prog
> > arboris
> > 7
> > $ ./prog
> > Ãrvore
> > 0
> >
> >   Any help?
> >
> >   Alex