std::locale breakage on MacOS 10.6 with LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Question

I have a C++ application that I am porting to MacOSX (specifically, 10.6). The app makes heavy use of the C++ standard library and boost. I recently observed some breakage i

Answer 1

The situation is still the same. But some functionality may be gained by

setlocale( LC_ALL, "" );

This gets you UTF-8 coding on wide iostreams but not money formatting, for my two data points.

locale::global( locale( "" ) );

should be equivalent, but it crashes if subsequently run in the very same program.