Yuval Ronen wrote:
After thinking about it some more, perhaps what I'm complaining about is something that is general in the locale/facet system. Maybe what's really bothering me is that once a certain setting is considered as "locale related", such as the decimal separator, it can only be configured using the locale/facet over-complicated way. But sometimes I don't want to use the "US", "German" or any other local setting for a decimal separator - I want to use *my* decimal separator. I souldn'd be forced to use a locale in such cases, IMO. IOW, I wish *all* settings would be configurable using manipulators (or an equivalent convenient way), and yes, that includes a decimal separator manipulator...
I agree. This often happens when the program needs to output numbers or dates in a specific predefined format that is locale-independent (or that is locale-dependent but the locale information doesn't come in a form that C++ locales recognize, but as information about the required output format.)