Re: isspace

From:
Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:39:03 -0600
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Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> wrote in
news:Xns9D116950C4paavo256@216.196.109.131:

gervaz <gervaz@gmail.com> wrote in news:f9eec1c9-5570-461a-bdec-
6dec26dab285@o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:

On Jan 30, 1:15?pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jan 30, 12:05 pm, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> writes:

There are no standard names for locales

? AFAIK, C90 defines a locale by the name of "C",
? which should also be visible from C++.


And Posix defines "POSIX". ?Neither of which are really useful
for anything.

--
James Kanze


Ok, so I think that I will open my file specifying to use UTF-8
encoding, but how can I do it in C++?


You can open it as a narrow stream and read in as binary UTF-8, or
(maybe) you can open it as a wide stream and get an automatic
translation from UTF-8 to wchar_t. The following example assumes that
you have a file test1.utf containing valid UTF-8 text. It reads the
file in as a wide stream and prints out the numeric values of all
wchar_t characters.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <locale>
#include <string>

int main() {
    std::wifstream is;
    const std::locale filelocale("en_US.UTF8");
    is.imbue(filelocale);
    is.open("test1.utf8");

    std::wstring s;
    while(std::getline(is, s)) {
        for (std::wstring::size_type j=0; j<s.length(); ++j) {
            std::cout << s[j] << " ";
        }
        std::cout << "\n";
    }
}

(Tested on Linux with a recent gcc, I am not too sure if this works on
Windows. First, wchar_t in MSVC is too narrow for real Unicode, at
best one might get UTF-16 as a result.)


For curiosity, I tested this also on Windows with MSVC9, and as expected
it did not work, the locale construction immediately threw an exception
(bad locale name). Neither did any alterations work ("english.UTF8",
".UTF8", ".utf-8", ".65001").

Thus, if one wants any portability it seems the best approach currently
is still to read in binary UTF-8 and perform any needed conversions by
hand.

Paavo

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