Question

I writing a txt file using ofstream, from various reasons the file should have local encoding and not UTF8.
The machine which process the file has different localizations then the target local.

is there a way to force the encoding when writing a file?

regards,

Ilan

Answer 1

You can call std::ios::imbue on your ofstream object to modify the locale. This won’t affect the global locale.

std::ofstream os("output.txt");
std::locale mylocale(""); 
os.imbue(mylocale);
os << 1.5f << std::endl;
os.close();

Pay attention to the argument of std::locale constructor, it is implementation dependant. For example, the German locale could be :

std::locale mylocale("de_DE"); 

or

std::locale mylocale("German");