Re: std::cout << Glib::ustring(utf8_literal) throws exception

[Sohail Somani <sohail taggedtype net>]

Chris Vine wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:54:38 -0700
> Sohail Somani <sohail taggedtype net> wrote:
> > Chris Vine wrote:
> > > Conversions can fail for various reasons, but to start from the
> > > beginning have you set a locale of any kind which handles non-ascii
> > > characters?  In particular, have you called setlocale(LC_ALL,""),
> > > or the equivalent std::locale::global(std::locale(""))?  If you
> > > have not, the C locale will be used and any glibmm conversion will
> > > throw an exception if a byte of value >= 128 is met.
> > Yes, I have tried both.
>
> Possibly then your machine locale cannot handle the characters that you
> are trying to feed to it (unless a narrow character codeset is UTF-8 it
> is probably limited to around 200 different characters). If setting
> your machine locale to UTF-8 works, that is most likely the reason.

Great, I thought this was exactly the problem as well! Now, do you know 
how I can set Windows XP to have a locale of "UTF-8"? I can't figure it 
out nor can I convince Professor Google to let me cheat on the test :-(

Sohail