[illumos-Discuss] strange error

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 01:46 -0700, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> > Is the locale in question actually installed?
> > 
> >   pkg install pkg:/locale/en
> > 
> > Try it.
> 
> Well the locale is installed:

THe directories being present is not sure.  The old locale packages and
the new ones are different and its easy to confuse the two.

Please do a find and look for files called LCL_DATA. :-)  Or better yet,
just try to reinstall the package.

	- Garrett

> 
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/locale/el_GR.UTF-8/
> total 5395
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin        4 2011-01-27 08:52 amd64
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin  5458852 2010-12-16 12:05 el_GR.UTF-8.so.3
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin        2 2010-12-16 12:04 LC_COLLATE
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin        6 2011-01-27 08:52 LC_CTYPE
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin        4 2011-01-27 08:52 LC_MESSAGES
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin        2 2010-12-16 12:04 LC_MONETARY
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin        2 2010-12-16 12:04 LC_NUMERIC
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin        2 2010-12-16 12:04 LC_TIME
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin        4 2011-01-27 08:52 LO_LTYPE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin       22 2010-12-16 12:05 locale_description
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin       17 2010-12-16 12:05 locale_map
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      30 2011-01-27 08:52 methods_unicode.so.3 -> ../common/methods_unicode.so.3
> $ locale
> 
> LANG=el_GR.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="el_GR.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
>  
> Now by modifying the program as follows
> 
> 
> #include <iostream>
> #include <fstream>
> #include <string>
> using namespace std;
> int main() {
>   wstring ws2 = L"Euro:\x20ac";
>   wofstream out("unicode.txt");
> //  out.imbue(locale("el_GR.UTF-8"));
>   out << ws2<< endl;
>   wcout << ws2;
> }
> 
> 
> it prints the word Euro on screen but nothing appears on the output file.
> 
> 
> A.S.
> 
> ----------------------
> Apostolos Syropoulos
> Xanthi, Greece
>