Hello, When the Boost.Locale is used for number formatting you need to use appropriate manipulators cout.imbue(locale_generated_by_boost_locale); cout << 10.23 << " " << boost::locale::as::number << 10.23 << std::endl; Would deliver in de_AT locale 10.23 10,23 Boost locale does not alter the basic C locale formatting such that you will always get for decimal point "." of the "C" locale. Rationale?  http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/locale/doc/html/std_locales.html#s... Also it would allow to use characters like NBSP that can't be represented with a single char. That is why you get generator("")).decimal_point() == '.'   Artyom Beilis -------------- CppCMS - C++ Web Framework:   http://cppcms.com/ CppDB - C++ SQL Connectivity: http://cppcms.com/sql/cppdb/ ----- Original Message -----

From: Michael Schinner To: "boost@lists.boost.org" Cc: Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 11:38 AM Subject: [boost] [Locale] does generator("") deliver the system's default locale?

boost 1.54.0 When I use boost::locale::generator and generator("") I get different results for the decimal point than using std::locale(""). Boths methods are supposted to deliver the system's default locale.

Example: // windows 7, de_AT std::use_facet

...

(std::locale("")).decimal_point(); //  delivers a , boost::locale::generator generator; std::use_facet

What does generator("")) deliver? Is it wanted that a '.' is deliverd as decimal point for a german locale?

Best regards, Michael

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