TITLE: introduction to locales

(Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++.moderated, 26 Aug 97)

[ Nathan Myers has a very good article discussing
  locales at the URL below. Check it out! -adc ]


DAVIS: Douglass Davis

>   I'm new to this whole Unicode deal, and I would like to know
> how other people deal with internationalization of programs.  
> I know the C string library does not work on unicode, or "wide
> characters."
>
> I am programming in C/C++, and working on an SGI under UNIX...

MYERS: Nathan Myers <ncm@-nospam-cantrip.org>

The Standard C++ Library support for internationalization is 
implemented in the SGI distribution--although I don't know if 
they have Unicode locales defined.  If not, you'd need to build 
or buy your own; there are companies that sell POSIX locale file 
sets in standard format that should be compatible with SGI's 
library.

A short introduction to the Standard C++ Locale facilities
may be found at 

  http://www.cantrip.org/locale.html

(This is scheduled for publication in Dr. Dobb's Journal, maybe
January 1998.)  It doesn't describe all (or even much) of the 
facilities in the Standard Library, but it gives key examples 
and describes the architecture and techniques used.  
(Comments welcome.)