Re: [boost] [locale] [filesystem] Windows local 8 bit encoding

Hi Artyom,

Currently win32 API supports only UTF-8 encodings, so you need to one of:

- compile with ICU - select std backend (because the default without ICU on windows is win32) - disable win32 backend (in build options) so only std backend would be used. But you should note that under Windows only MSVC has std backend support, for gcc and ANSI encodings you need ICU,

Is there reason why win32 and std backend behave differently here? Using std locale get_system_locale() method works for code pages of the form 'windows-XXX'. Others e.g. 'Shift_JIS' should fail. And if you want the CURRENT locale on Microsoft Windows, I simply can't see how to get that. But why not add generator.generate( void ) giving exactly that. Best regards Bjoern.