From: Gevorg Voskanyan <v_gevorg@yahoo.com>
or a "class bigint" example which uses the Boost.Locale number formatting info for its I/O. Bonus points if they fallback to std facets if corresponding Boost.Locale info is missing from the stream!
Actually it is not quite possible, at least with ICU backend as it supports only double, int32 and int64 types, so it wouldn't be possible to do it.
I'd consider it a severe limitation if that is really impossible. Can't I print
my arbitrary big integers in the properly localized way? ICU obviously knows the
rules for formatting numbers in the locales it supports, and uses that info to
format double, int32, int64. Isn't there a way to query that necessary info from
ICU to format numbers outside of it?
It can be done somehow for non-ICU backends that provide std::numpunct,
Are you saying here that a std::numpunct-like facet can't be implemented with
the ICU backend?
(it is not enough for ICU case as it is too primitive to handle all required options)
Yes, I understand that std::numpunct interface is not good enough for all locales. What I would like to see in Boost.Locale is a facet much like numpunct
but such that it is correct for all locales, and uses ICU to achieve that when
that backend is enabled. Of course if that is possible at all?
The biggest problem is that ICU has rule based number formatting and unless you parse rules specifically you don't get what you need. Basically it is not obvious to get the separator rules and other things. So in order to do it it requires re-implement icu::DecimalFormat. Artyom