Re: [boost] Silly Boost.Locale default narrow string encoding in Windows

Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

However, I still ask:

why FORCE INEFFICIENCY & AWKWARDNESS on Boost users -- why not just do it right, using the platforms' native encodings.

Comment out the imbue line. (The platform's native encoding is UTF-16. The "ANSI" code page, which is not necessarily ANSI or ANSI-like at all, despite your assertion, is not "native"; the OS just converts from/to it as needed. Your program will work fine until it's given a file name that is not representable in the ANSI CP.)