On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski@gmail.com> wrote:
How exactly do I imbue UTF-8 codecvt in a path? I Googled around and couldn't find anything.
There are two approaches: * If you always want all class path arguments and returned values with a value type of char to be treated as being UTF-8 encoded, and aren't worried about changing a potentially dangerous global, then do this: #include <boost/filesystem/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp> ... std::locale global_loc = std::locale(); std::locale loc(global_loc, new boost::filesystem::detail::utf8_codecvt_facet); boost::filesystem::path::imbue(loc); * If you only want one specific path to treat its narrow character arguments and returns as UTF-8, do this: boost::filesystem::detail::utf8_codecvt_facet utf8; ... boost::filesystem::path p; ... p.assign(u8"...", utf8); // many other path functions can take a codecvt argument, too By the way, you can use a UTF-8 codecvt facet from someone else if you prefer. HTH, --Beman