Re: Doubles and Integers as strings.

From:

David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:12:46 -0500

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P.J. Plauger wrote:

"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:uU2F6dufHHA.284@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

iostream formatting is simply ugly. And it's not localizeable.

Uh, yes it is. That's what imbue is for.

Neither is *printf, though,

Uh, yes it is. That's what setlocale is for.

I think that what Alexander means is that you can localize printf by
localizing the format string. This allows you to take care of situations
where different languages place the elemnts of a sentence in a different
order. E.g.

25 is a number. (English)
A NUMBER 25 IS. (CAPITALESE)

int n=25;
printf("%d is a number.", n);
printf("A NUMBER %d IS.", n);

By loading the format string from a localizable resource, you can
translate your application without changing the source code. You cannot
do this with iostreams.

[Everything I know about localization (which is pretty much limited to
the above observation) I learned from Mihai Nita.]

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David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP