Re: Imbue does not honour encoding

[Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at suse dot de>]

Hi,

> Hi I don't know whether this is a feature or a bug but I suspect it to
> be the latter.
there are various issues here. The first one is that, according to the 
ISO C++ standard that we are implementing, *most* of then named locale 
support is implementation defined, thus, unfortunately, do not expect, 
in general, to write code easily portable from an implementation to 
another. More specifically, our cin, wcin, etc, are *not* converting by 
default, because are synced char by char with stdio (we consider this a 
good compromise, in general). Thus, in order to enable conversion, you 
have to call std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false) at the beginning of your 
program. Alternately, all the filestreams are always converting.

In general, you may want to search the archives and Bugzilla for further 
details. In any case, we have already open a DR about missing 
documentation in this area, we are actively working on it.

Paolo.