can't write wide character/string to outputfile

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 27 June 2011 16:34,  <asyropoulos@aol.com> wrote:
>> - if you start it was an utf-8--encoding, (like el_GR.UTF-8),
>>  everything should run fine IF this encoding exists on your machine.
>
> I am a bit confused: what do you mean by encoding? At any rate, I have
> compiled and run your much improved program and here are the results:
>
> apostolo@mary>> locale
> LANG=el_GR.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=el_GR.UTF-8
> apostolo@mary>> ./loctest
> trying to access locale el_GR.UTF-8
> Couldn't generate locale el_GR.UTF-8: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name
> not valid
> Error when writing to file


  void
  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale(__c_locale& __cloc, const char* __s,
				    __c_locale)
  {
    // Currently, the generic model only supports the "C" locale.
    // See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2003-02/msg00345.html
    __cloc = 0;
    if (strcmp(__s, "C"))
      __throw_runtime_error(__N("locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale "
			    "name not valid"));
  }

Darwin uses that generic definition of that function.

When configured to use the ieee_1003.1-2001 locale model, Solaris uses
this implementation:

  void
  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale(__c_locale&, const char*, __c_locale*)
  { }

Which does nothing.

The locale code needs a lot of work on non-GNU/Linux platforms, people
who care about using locales on those platforms need to contribute
code.