Re: isspace

From:
Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:15:07 -0600
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gervaz <gervaz@gmail.com> wrote in
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On Jan 31, 2:17??pm, Paavo Helde <myfirstn...@osa.pri.ee> wrote:

gervaz <ger...@gmail.com> wrote
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On Jan 31, 10:39??am, Paavo Helde <myfirstn...@osa.pri.ee> wrote:

Paavo Helde <myfirstn...@osa.pri.ee> wrote
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16.196.109.131:

gervaz <ger...@gmail.com> wrote in news:f9eec1c9-5570-461a-bdec-
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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 usefu

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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


Under Windows, you have to use const std::locale filelocale
("English_Australia.1252") according to
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Table_of_locales, I've tested it in VC++08
and it works. Any suggestion in how to handle the dualism?


Did you actually test the results? It seems this is reading UTF-8 in
unaltered, so there is no point to use a wide stream in the first
place.

Paavo


Well, yeah, although using an example file like
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt and using
plain std::string, std::ifstream and std::cout everything works fine,
if I put the 'w' in front of all this types the sysout fails
producing:

UTF-8 encoded sample plain-text file
??

Why??


Because codepage 1252 has nothing to do with UTF-8.

BTW, in Windows, I would not rely also too much on what you see on the
console. That's why I printed out only numeric wchar_t values in the
earlier example.

Paavo

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