Re: [Mingw-users] std::locale not working

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

ad...@ne... writes:
 > I do not think MinGW GCC currently supports locale. My tests show that no 
 > version of MinGW GCC can recognize a locale name like "de_DE" or 
 > "German_Germany.1252".

It isn't mingw that supports locales, but the Microsoft C
runtime. Microsoft's C library uses the "German_Germany.1252" style of
locale (or locale category) name (as second parameter to
setlocale()). If you pass an empty string as the second parameter to
setlocale(), it uses the setting from Windows's Regional Settings. It
does *not* support taking locale names from the environment, setting
LANG or LC_* environment variables has no effect, in case that's what
you have tried.

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