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