--- On Thu, 7/21/11, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:

From: Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org>

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You can't create working

std::basic_ostringstream<char16_t> stream;

Because stream << 1245 would not work due to lack of std::locale facets.

You can't create requires facets as for example they are specialized in many standard libraries.

Emulation via simple uint16_t and uint32_t typedefs doesn't work for all use cases. So only use it when it does work.

And Boost.Filesystem.v3 is one of these specific use cases. Boost.Filesystem uses codecvt facet? You can't create them, at least with gcc/linux because existing codecvt facets are specialized for each type of character - and you have to derive from it. For example this code would not link with Linux/gcc-4.6 #include <locale> class real_facet : public std::codecvt<char16_t,char,std::mbstate_t> { }; class simulated_facet : public std::codecvt<unsigned short,char,std::mbstate_t> { }; int main() { std::locale l1(std::locale::classic(),new real_facet()); std::locale l2(std::locale::classic(),new simulated_facet()); } With errors like: undefined reference to `std::codecvt<char16_t, char, __mbstate_t>::do_in(__mbstate_t&, char const*, char const*, char const*&, char16_t*, char16_t*, char16_t*&) const' --- : undefined reference to `std::codecvt<unsigned short, char, __mbstate_t>::do_max_length() const'

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Even existing Microsoft's VC2010 does not work if you compile application with /MD or /MDd

I'll retest just to be sure, but I'm fairly sure that some of my tests have used those switches.

MSVC2010 does not provide specialization for std::locale::id for these new facets and they are undefined in the dll. If you want I'll provide a fault case for MSVC10 as well. And all these with compilers that **declare** support of charXX_t. So you may try to put an effort in implementing some emulation but at these points char16_t/char32_t are broken with modern compilers. Artyom Beilis -------------- CppCMS - C++ Web Framework: http://cppcms.sf.net/ CppDB - C++ SQL Connectivity: http://cppcms.sf.net/sql/cppdb/