Run-time error: setlocal en_us

[marued]

I'm using the STEP importer in one of my project and I wanted to update the IfcPlusPlus to it's latest greatest. I'm encountering a new run time issue where a check is made to check the language setting of the system in the file ReaderSTEP.cpp line 79 to make sure the system has the local language en_us set. Obviously, my windows 10 system is not set to English and hence this line fails.

Why is this check made? and is it really wise to restrict the users to a single language setting? This could be a deal breaker for a lot of users.

Thanks in advance.

[marued]

Actually, it's possible the call actually requires admin rights on windows. My current user does not have the proper rights to change the local...

[Fed80]

I solved replacing "en_us.UTF-8" with "en-US".

"The locale argument can take a locale name, a language string, a language string and country/region code, a code page, or a language string, country/region code, and code page. The set of available locale names, languages, country/region codes, and code pages includes all those supported by the Windows NLS API except code pages that require more than two bytes per character, such as UTF-7 and UTF-8. If you provide a code page value of UTF-7 or UTF-8, setlocale will fail, returning NULL." link to microsoft page

[berndhahnebach]

Why is this check made? and is it really wise to restrict the users to a single language setting? This could be a deal breaker for a lot of users.

Would like to know this one too. Compiling fails on Debian with this switch. I got around by using the old behaviour if setlocale fails: berndhahnebach@8429dc2