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To: <musl@lists.openwall.com>, "Dong Brett" <brett.browning.dong@gmail.com>
From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=89rico_Nogueira?= <ericonr@disroot.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:37:47 -0300
Message-Id: <C7GLQXB257CD.161VTRHQZOFWH@mussels>
In-Reply-To: <20201130113508.GQ1370092@port70.net>
Subject: Re: [musl] Question on C++ locale

On Mon Nov 30, 2020 at 8:35 AM -03, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Dong Brett <brett.browning.dong@gmail.com> [2020-11-30 18:41:33
> +0800]:
> > However, the following C++ code does not work (our software uses std::l=
ocale in C++ standard library for locale related stuff):
> > #include <langinfo.h>
> > #include <locale.h>
> > #include <locale>
> > using namespace std;
> > int main()
> > {
> >     std::locale::global(locale(""));
> >     initscr();
> >     printw("LC_ALL: %s\n", setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
> >     printw("C++ locale: %s\n", locale().name().c_str());
> >     printw("CODESET: %s\n", nl_langinfo(CODESET));
> >     printw("Hello, world!\n");
> >     printw("=E4=BD=A0=E5=A5=BD=EF=BC=8C=E4=B8=96=E7=95=8C!\n");
> >     refresh();
> >     getch();
> >     endwin();
> >     return 0;
> > }
>
> fwiw for me even the first line fails.
> i don't know how c++ locales are supposed to work.
>
> $ cat a.cc
> #include <locale>
> using namespace std;
> int main()
> {
> std::locale::global(locale(""));
> return 0;
> }
>
> $ g++ a.cc
> $ ./a.out
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
> what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
> Aborted

For an example of this issue "in the wild", so to speak, I can only
launch supertux2 [1] with LANG=3DC. Exact same error message otherwise.

- [1] https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux