Darwin Tiger throws std::runtime_error: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

[John Pavel <jrp@…>]

... in test 15 at ​http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/output/jrp-darwin-boost-bin-v2-libs-filesystem-test-fstream_test-test-darwin-debug-link-static.html

I have

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

[John Pavel <jrp@…>]

​http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/output/jrp-darwin-boost-bin-v2-libs-filesystem-test-wide_test-test-darwin-debug-link-static.html also fails with the same diagnostic

[dirk@…]

I believe this also happens with the following piece of code:

int main()

{

std::locale::global(std::locale(""));

choke

It seems osx/bsd only supports "C" and "POSIX" (there are some post on the web saying this), which is sort of strange - why should this be and OSX does support unicode (how?)

Could this be fixed in any way? Or does Apple need to do something (I'd rather not compile my own gcc)

Best, Dirk

[Beman Dawes]

This is a known problem with MacOS and std::locale(""). I've added a workaround to use std::locale() instead.