Re: [Cppcms-users] C++ locale and boost.locale

[augustin <aug...@ov...>]

On Wednesday 04 May 2011 03:35:35 pm Artyom wrote:
> See: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/218008
> [...]
> See section about locale generation.

Thanks. The discussion thread you link to, and your mention prompted me to do 
some further research and I finally figured out that I was missing yet another 
whole chapter of this very complex, yet fascinating language (C++).
I hadn't grasped how the concept of locale was deeply embedded within the 
language itself:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/std/locale/ 
http://stdcxx.apache.org/doc/stdlibug/VII.html 
chapter 22 of c++0x,
chapter 27 of c++03.

With only 400+ hours of experience with C++, I still count as a very beginner. 
It's been 400 hours worth of shocks at discovering how many facets there are 
to the language, and how many ancillary skills (compiling, linking, gnu tools, 
Makefile, cmake, etc.)  and libraries (std, STL, std::locale, boost, cppcms, 
cppdb and others I am using...) I have yet to master to become, hopefully one 
day, a decent C++ programmer. 

In the boost.locale documentation, as part of the introduction, you ought to 
make a list of assumed knowledge, with some links like those I provided above, 
to redirect people like me to background information.

I'm going to be reading about all this now...

> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3467153/is-there-an-intelligent-way-to-k
> now-
> 
> > the-name-of-the-library-to-link-to-at-compile
> > Is  this platform/compiler dependent? Can't this kind of thing be 
> > documented? Anyway, in this case, I found it was -lboost_locale.
> 
> This is something Boost general not related
> to Boost.Locale specifically.

Yes, but it affects every single boost library, including yours. Maybe you can 
add such necessary information to the boost.locale documentation.


> Take a look on libs/locale/examples
> with full code to see what you miss.

Oh, yes, I did miss that! Very cool, thanks. 

Thanks again for your constant support. Your answers were very helpful in 
pointing me in the right direction. I have much study to do, now... ;)

Btw, since I have a svn checkout (ever considered using git? Yet another thing 
I need to learn: how to link a local git working directory to a svn upstream 
source. I know there are tutorials about it, that I can find easily... there is 
so much to do and to learn!)... I was saying: since I checked out boost.locale 
from svn, let me know if you'd like me to prepare a patch for the 
documentation.... (I am still waiting for your review of my form.h patch, 
though...).


Blessings,

Augustin.







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