Package: libstdc++3 Version: 1:3.0.3-1 Severity: normal Running the program
#include <iostream> int main(){ std::locale loc("de_DE.UTF-8"); std::locale::global(loc); std::wcout<<L"Der \u20AC ist da"<<std::endl; } results in output that represents, in binary, as 0000000 D e r ¬ i s t d a \n \0 6544 2072 20ac 7369 2074 6164 000a 0000015 As you can see, the non-ASCII character U+20AC (EURO SIGN) was printed as a two-byte value in what appears to be UCS-2. Instead, conversion to UTF-8 should have been performed. This happens in every locale; try de_DE.iso-8859-15 for another example (where EURO SIGN should have been converted to a single byte, /xa4). -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux kosh 2.4.13-586-ext3 #1 Die Nov 6 00:09:32 CET 2001 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages libstdc++3 depends on: ii gcc-3.0-base 1:3.0.3-1 The GNU Compiler Collection (base ii libc6 2.2.4-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.0.3-1 GCC support library.