Re: [boost] [filesystem] becoming worse than the standard?

On 16/08/2022 07:35, Peter Dimov wrote:

The usual approach is to put

boost::filesystem::path::imbue( std::locale( std::locale::classic(), new boost::filesystem::detail::utf8_codecvt_facet ) );

as the first thing in `main`.

As a library, you cannot assume that the application has done this (nor can you do it yourself). The code has to act correctly regardless.