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

I had the same problem, checked LANG and LC_MESSAGES and they are not set when you lunch the application through Finder, so the following lines saved the day:

unset("LANG");
unset("LC_MESSAGES");