[Boost-users] [Format] Formatting some string chars not encoding to hex

Hello, I've got some characters that are not formatting to hex properly. They are not being interpreted correctly by the strongly typed Format. For instance, consider the format string: const char x = '$'; // also, '_', for instance const auto s = (boost::format("\\x%1$02x") % x).str(); I would expect this to encode to: "\\x24", however, instead this encodes to "\\x0$". I would expect '_' to encode: "\\x5f", however, this encodes to "\\x0_". In a few words, the encoding is "seeing" the char as a literal char instead of as an "integer". Although I could possibly trap for this as being the case, I do not think that I should. Thoughts? Format authors? Best regards, Michael Powell