wcout, wprintf() only print English

[Gerhard Fiedler]

How will they not? VC++ will certainly still produce a Windows
executable, not a Linux executable.

Exactly. And that exe requires Windows, not VMware.

If I had a Windows platform handy, I'd run VC++ on it. If I
have to run it under VMware, it's because I don't have a Windows
platform available otherwise.

Right. But that's not a requirement of the generated executable. You can
install Windows in a dual-boot config or send the exe to someone else with
a Windows system or use a different virtualizer or Windows emulator, and
the exe will run just fine without VMware. It doesn't even know it was
compiled under VMware.

Gerhard

 

[Frank Birbacher]

Hi!

In summary, the locale specialisations work only either when we use the
locale::global() statement, or we use the
std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); statement. I have the feeling
this is a bug and not an implementation-defined behaviour.

You are using gcc on linux. With msvc8 on windows it seems to be the
other way round: When I set an utf8 converting locale on wcout only, it
works. However if I set it on wcout AND globally the output will be
garbled. Maybe it tries to do the conversion twice.

Note: I tested the utf8 output in an eclipse console which is set to
utf8 encoding.

From my current experience there is no usable wcout implementation that
reliably makes use of the conversion facet. Maybe I will just implement
a std wide (wchar_t) stream that outputs to a narrow stream and uses the
utf8 encoding. I could use that to simply wrap cout and replace wcout.

Frank