First, add some error checking. Test what does wcin.good()
return after the input and what does wcout.good()
return after the "You entered" print? I suspect one of those will return false
.
What are your LANG
and LC_*
environment variables set to?
Then try to fix this by adding this at the top of your main()
: wcin.imbue(std::locale("")); wcout.imbue(std::locale(""));
I do not have my Ubuntu at hand right now, so I am flying blind here and mostly guessing.
UPDATE
If the above suggestion does not help then try to construct locale like this and imbue()
this locale instead.
std::locale loc (
std::locale (),
new std::codecvt_byname<wchar_t, char, std::mbstate_t>("")));
UPDATE 2
Here is what works for me. The key is to set the C locale as well. IMHO, this is a bug in GNU C++ standard library implementation. Unless I am mistaken, setting std::locale::global("");
should also set the C library locale.
#include <iostream>
#include <locale>
#include <clocale>
#define DUMP(x) do { std::wcerr << #x ": " << x << "\n"; } while (0)
int main(){
using namespace std;
std::locale loc ("");
std::locale::global (loc);
DUMP(std::setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
DUMP(std::setlocale(LC_ALL, ""));
wcin.imbue (loc);
DUMP (wcin.good());
wchar_t aChar = 0;
wcin >> aChar;
DUMP (wcin.good());
DUMP ((int)aChar);
wcout << L"You entered " << aChar << L" .\n";
return 0;
}
UPDATE 3
I am confused, now I cannot reproduce it again and setting std::locale::global(loc);
seems to do the right thing wrt/ the C locale as well.