On 26/08/12 19:15, Artyom Beilis wrote:
I think it is related to this ticket:
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5289
Note: under Solaris, the libstdc++ library does not support any locales besides C and POSIX due to lack to the native OS API.
In general there are many locale related design issues in boost::filesystem.
Using locale for POSIX OS API when you don't actually use wide API is inherently wrong under POSIX platforms:
http://cppcms.com/files/nowide/html/index.html#qna
My question is though, whether it is possible to use boost::filesystem without locales? Meaning, if I know my string is a UTF-8 string, is it possible to avoid the locale processing within the boost filesystem?
Have you tried the Boost.Locale library? It allows Boost.Filesystem to use UTF-8 paths, at least from what I understand. In fact, that's something I need to go pry apart. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0/libs/locale/doc/html/default_encoding_u...