Boost 1.47.0 file: \tools\bcp\licence_info.cpp function: std::string format_authors_name(const std::string& name) In regex literal (^)?[^-(<a-zA-Z�-�]+(([(<].*)?$)? there are some characters from unknown character set (byte value above 127). This causes runtime error while running "bcp shared_ptr foo":     "boost Found a closing ) with no corresponding openening parenthesis.  The error occured while parsing the regular expression fragment:" I am using English version of Windnows XP, but locale are Korean (Control Panel->Regional and Language Options->Advanced->Language for non-Unicode programs). Default toolset was used to build boost (that is msvc). I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 installed.