"George M. Garner Jr." <gmgarner@erols.com> wrote in message news:chr8dl$8rr$1@sea.gmane.org...
Johnathan,
How do I do locale specific Unicode-to-Multibyte conversion. As I understand the current design I need to do something like this:
filtering_wostream out; out.push(unicode_to_multibyte_output_filter<__wchar_t>(locale)); out.push(cout); out << L"This gets converted to multibyte characters according to the current locale." << endl;
The problem is really that I haven't finished writing the components that make this easy. For this, I apologize. (See User's Guide-->Code Conversion.) The *easiest* way to do what you want should be this: converting_ostream out; out.push(std::cout); out.imbue( some_locale ); out << L"This gets converted to multibyte characters"; This will also allow any number of wide- and narrow- character filters before cout, as long as all the wide ones come first. But as I said, this component is not ready yet. The current way to do this is extremely verbose: typedef converter< reference_wrapper<std::ostream> > my_converter; stream_facade<my_converter> out; out.open(my_converter(ref(std::cout), whatever_locale)); out << L"Hello Wide World!\n"; Reference wrapper is required here because std::ostream is non-copyable. The above code really should be typedef converter<std::ostream> my_converter; stream_facade<my_converter> out; out.open(my_converter(std::cout, whatever_locale)); out << L"Hello Wide World!\n"; but I forgot to make the template converter do the reference-wrapping automatically. (I'll fix this.) There's one last problem. The file boost/io/detail/streambufs/indirect_streambufs contains this code: enum { f_open = 1, f_input_closed = f_open << 1, f_output_closed = f_input_closed << 1, f_output_buffered = f_output_closed }; This should be enum { f_open = 1, f_input_closed = f_open << 1, f_output_closed = f_input_closed << 1, f_output_buffered = f_output_closed << 1 }; I'm not sure if it will make a difference in the above case. To summarize: what you want to do is perfectly resonable and should be easy, but I haven't finished developing all the components. The current method is unnecessarily verbose, but should work. Thanks again! Jonathan
But the second to last line will generate an error with the present design because I am attaching a narrow character stream to a wide character filtering ostream. Do I need to use the boost::io::copy() paradigm? :(-
Regards,
George.
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