I think it is related to this ticket: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5289 Note: under Solaris, the libstdc++ library does not support any locales besides C and POSIX due to lack to the native OS API. In general there are many locale related design issues in boost::filesystem. Using locale for POSIX OS API when you don't actually use wide API is inherently wrong under POSIX platforms: http://cppcms.com/files/nowide/html/index.html#qna Artyom Beilis -------------- CppCMS - C++ Web Framework:   http://cppcms.com/ CppDB - C++ SQL Connectivity: http://cppcms.com/sql/cppdb/

________________________________ From: JonathonS <thejunkjon@gmail.com> To: boost@lists.boost.org Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: [boost] boost::filesystem -- using non-POSIX locale crashes on Solaris

Hi,

I am currently using boost::filesystem::path on Solaris, and I noticed that if I set the locale to anything except "C" or "POSIX" such as "en_US.UTF-8", that it crashes i.e. a run-time error gets thrown.  I found a link describing the issue here: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5928

My question is though, whether it is possible to use boost::filesystem without locales?  Meaning, if I know my string is a UTF-8 string, is it possible to avoid the locale processing within the boost filesystem?

Thanks, J

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