What platform are you trying this on? Wide character support may depend on the platform as well as GCC. Thanks, Lyle Taylor IS Applications -----Original Message----- From: Alex J. Dam [mailto:alexjotadam@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 12:28 PM To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Do wcout and wcin work with GCC? Hi, I would like to use C++ as my primary language for computer programming, but I'm having some problems dealing with multi-byte strings in g++. How can I make wcin and wcout work? Whenever I read a string from the console the string is truncated at the first non-ASCII character. When I'm writing to wcout, the string is also truncated. I've tried imbue(), setlocale(), etc. but it didn't solve my problem. My locale is pt_BR.UTF-8, my gcc and g++ are version 3.3.1. EXAMPLE: #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <locale> using namespace std; int main(){ locale l("pt_BR.UTF-8"); setlocale(LC_ALL, "pt_BR.UTF-8"); locale::global(l); wcout.imbue(l); wcin.imbue(l); wstring s; wcin >> s; wcout << s.length() << endl; } Some output: $ ./prog arboris 7 $ ./prog Ãrvore 0 Any help? Alex
