Re: Convert LCID to ANSI locale string?

On Feb 1, 7:56 pm, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:
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I just seek for the most "natural" way to do this. If writing own
function is not that unnatural then it's just fine :-)
I do not know of any problem with this code, but may be people out
there see them...

In fact, the need for such a function was not out of curiosity. I
noticed that on the Russian version of WinXP (probably not only on XP
but on other versions too, but not tested; also see the stdlib version
below) a call to

std::fstream::open(char const*, std::ios::openmode)

fails subtly on filenames with Russian letters.

Debugging a bit showed that the implementation (VS 2005 C++ stdlib)
constructs a temporary buffer of wchar_t's to pass an Unicode string
with filename to the corresponding Unicode function overload which is
supposed to actually do the job. The implementation uses mbstowcs()
to obtain the Unicode filename which unfortunately fails to handle
Russian letters correctly since the locale was not properly setup.

Since I have never ever seen LOCALE environment variable to be set
under Windows I guessed that WinAPI locale mechanism might be used to
obtain "correct" locale string based on the default locale id.

Am I missing something about WinAPI and ANSI C locales?

--
Alex Shulgin