id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
10245,Boost::Format autocasts to character when I told it a number,Mikhail Kandel <kandel3@…>,Samuel Krempp,"Hi.

I was disappointed to learn that Boost::format will print an unsigned char as a character despite the format string being set to an integer. This is different then the behavior of printf, and goes against intuition as I explicitly specified the datatype.

unsigned char smallnumber = 4;
printf(""%d"",smallnumber);%good
boost::format(""%d"") % smallnumber; // bad, treats as  char, outputs strange character

It looks I'm not the only one that had this problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1674284/boostformat-question

Wanted to make sure the boost people knew about this,",Bugs,closed,To Be Determined,format,Boost 1.56.0,Problem,duplicate,cast,