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n3olynx

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 46

c++ locale

I'm having problems setting the locale to something other than "C"
The following line works

locale langLocale("C");

but when i try something else such as

locale langLocale("en_US");

This is the error I get:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Aborted

I get a runtime error. Has anyone else encountered this problem? What am I doing wrong?

MikeJS

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Registered: 2005-12-30

Posts: 2

Re: c++ locale

I think you need to include a charset, like en_US.UTF-8. You can get a list of locales on your system w/

locale -a

n3olynx

Member

From: New York, NY

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 46

Re: c++ locale

nope...tried it already with the locales listed in locale -a
Maybe it has something to do with glibc and some compile options?