C++: force ofstream to create file with iso-8859-1 encoding
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C++: force ofstream to create file with iso-8859-1 encoding
Hello all,
I did a program that makes some txt files using ofstream class. The problem I found is that despite my linux box is set to ISO-8859-1 the output txt files that the program creates are unicode UTF-8:
g++ probably compiles programs to use UTF-8 by default (that's probably how the distro maintainer compiled it.) You need to imbue the other locale within the program. Those env should only change how gcc reads the files and displays its own output.
Kevin Barry
ta0kira, thanks for your reply!
Yes, I used locale library and imbue, but my output files continued to be utf-8. Previously I had set my box to used utf-8 so I found my sources (.cpp) continued to be encoded with utf-8. I used iconv to convert them and then compilled again, including locale and imbue, and with all sources in iso-8859-1 then it worked.
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