Re: isspace

From:
gervaz <gervaz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 3 Feb 2010 03:47:16 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
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On 3 Feb, 09:56, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se> wrote:

On Fri, 2010-01-29, Paavo Helde wrote:

...

Or I could keep the text in UTF-8 and use my own custom function for
checking for the whitespace, checking directly for all Unicode whitespa=

ce

characters as listed inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%
28computer_science%29, this seems to me much less error-prone than
worrying if Russian locale and std::isspace are working correctly on al=

l

platforms.


Worrying? "I don't support doing analysis of Russian text on a
platform with broken Russian locales" sounds like something you can
happily say.

/Jorgen

--
  // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
\X/ snipabacken.se> O o .


Ok, to summarize things learned so far:
UTF-8 can be handled by simply using std::string (henche char)
UTF-16 and UTF-32 handled by std::wstring and std::wchar_t but not
reliable because the type size is implementation-specific
Now, something like:

std::ifstream is;
const std::locale filelocale("Russian_Russia.1251");
is.imbue(filelocale);
is.open(argv[1]);

std::string s;
while(std::getline(is, s))
{
    for (std::string::const_iterator it = s.begin(); it != s.end(); +
+it)
    {
        std::cout << *it;
        if (std::isspace(*it, filelocale)) std::cout << "space found!"
<< std::endl;
    }
    std::cout << std::endl;
}

Works if we give as input a Russian text (althought the cout isn't
able to correctly display the russian characters).
If we are under Linux, something like

try
{
    const std::locale filelocale("Russian_Russia.1251");
}
catch
{
    try
    {
        const std::locale filelocale("ru_utf8");
    }
    catch
    {
        throw();
    }
}

Can work? Any suggestion (I don't even know the specif exception that
have to be catch. Just experimenting...

Thanks, Mattia

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