setlocale() doesn't work!

Green Fuze

Hey everybody I have the following code:

wstring curlocale1(::_wsetlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
printf("+++ current locale: %s", curlocale1.c_str());

::_wsetlocale(LC_ALL, L"en_us");

wstring curlocale2(::_wsetlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
printf("+++ current locale: %s", curlocale2.c_str());

and the output is: +++ current locale: C +++ current locale: C I can't understand why my locale does not change, what am I doing wrong? Thanks a lot!

Lost User

Used correctly it works fine:

wstring curlocale1(::\_wsetlocale(LC\_ALL, NULL));
printf("+++ current locale: %S\\n", curlocale1.c\_str());

::\_wsetlocale(LC\_ALL, L"English");

wstring curlocale2(::\_wsetlocale(LC\_ALL, NULL));
printf("+++ current locale: %S\\n", curlocale2.c\_str());

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Green Fuze

Hey, thanks :-) But "English" doesn't return "English (United States)", but generic English. Anyway, I found this GREAT article in codeproject that sort some things out, so I'm sitting on that :-) Windows SetThreadLocale and CRT setlocale[^]

Lost User

Green Fuze wrote:

But "English" doesn't return "English (United States)"

Try "English_US". I know locales sometimes seem far more complicated than necessary but there are many different combinations to account for.

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Green Fuze

It seems that "american_US" in ::setlocale and 1033 for ::SetThreadLocale() done the trick :-) . It is far too complicated than it should've been! Thanks again! :-)

Aescleal

Locales are platform dependent. They're the most irritating bit of the C++ standard as they leave the likes of Redmond and the Penguin crowd to make the decisions. And they're usually different. I'm not surprised that your code is going horribly wrong on another level - using printf %s with a wide character string is a recipe for printing the first character out if I've ever seen one. Cheers, Ash

Lost User

Green Fuze wrote:

Thanks again!

Thank you for leading me down yet another path of learning.

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