Chapter 1: Internationalization

• 1.1 How to Read this Section

• 1.2 Internationalization and Localization

• 1.2.1 Localizing Cultural Conventions

• 1.2.2 Character Encodings for Localizing Alphabets

• 1.2.3 Summary

• 1.3 The Standard C Locale and the Standard C++ Locales

• 1.3.1 The C Locale

• 1.3.2 The C++ Locales

• 1.3.3 Facets

• 1.3.4 Differences between the C Locale and the C++ Locales

• 1.3.5 Relationship between the C Locale and the C++ Locale

• 1.4 The Locale

• 1.5 The Facets

• 1.5.1 Creating a Facet Object

• 1.5.2 Accessing a Locale's Facets

• 1.5.3 Using a Stream's Facet

• 1.5.4 Creating a Facet Class for Replacement in a Locale

• 1.5.5 The Facet Id

• 1.5.6 Creating a Facet Class for Addition to a Locale

• 1.6 User-Defined Facets: An Example

• 1.6.1 A Phone Number Class

• 1.6.2 A Phone Number Formatting Facet Class

• 1.6.3 An Inserter for Phone Numbers

• 1.6.4 The Phone Number Facet Class Revisited

• 1.6.5 An Example of a Concrete Facet Class

• 1.6.6 Using Phone Number Facets

• 1.6.7 Formatting Phone Numbers

• 1.6.8 Improving the Inserter Function

Chapter 2: Stream Input/Output

• 2.1 How to Read This Section

• 2.1.1 Code Examples

• 2.1.2 Terminology

• 2.2 The Architecture of Iostreams

• 2.2.1 What Are the Standard Iostreams?

• 2.2.2 How Do the Standard Iostreams Work?

• 2.2.3 How Do the Standard Iostreams Help Solve Problems?

• 2.2.4 The Internal Structure of the Iostreams Layers

• 2.3 Formatted Input/Output

• 2.3.1 The Predefined Streams

• 2.3.2 Input and Output Operators

• 2.3.3 Format Control Using the Stream's Format State

• 2.3.4 Localization Using the Stream's Locale

• 2.3.5 Formatted Input

• 2.4 Error State of Streams

• 2.4.1 Checking the Stream State

• 2.4.2 Catching Exceptions

• 2.5 File Input/Output

• 2.5.1 The Difference between Predefined File Streams (cin, cout, cerr, and clog) and File Streams

• 2.5.2 Code Conversion in Wide Character Streams

• 2.5.3 File Streams

• 2.5.4 The Open Mode

• 2.5.5 Binary and Text Mode

• 2.6 In-Memory Input/Output

• 2.6.1 The Internal Buffer

• 2.6.2 The Open Modes

• 2.7 Input/Output of User-Defined Types

• 2.7.1 An Example Using a User-Defined Type

• 2.7.2 A Simple Extractor and Inserter for the Example

• 2.7.3 Improved Extractors and Inserters

• 2.7.4 More Improved Extractors and Inserters

• 2.7.5 Patterns for Extractors and Inserters of User-Defined Types

• 2.8 Manipulators

• 2.8.1 Manipulators without Parameters

• 2.8.2 Manipulators with Parameters

• 2.9 Streams and Stream Buffers

• 2.9.1 Copying and Assigning Stream Objects

• 2.9.2 Sharing a Stream Buffer Among Streams

• 2.9.3 Copies of the Stream Buffer

• 2.10 Synchronizing Streams

• 2.10.1 Explicit Synchronization

• 2.10.2 Implicit Synchronization Using the unitbuf Format Flag

• 2.10.3 Implicit Synchronization by Tying Streams

• 2.10.4 Synchronizing the Predefined Standard Streams

• 2.10.5 Synchronization with the C Standard I/O

• 2.11 Stream Storage for Private Use: iword, pword, and xalloc

• 2.11.1 An Example: Storing a Date Format String

• 2.11.2 Another Look at the Date Format String

• 2.11.3 Caveat

• 2.12 Creating New Stream Classes by Derivation

• 2.12.1 Choosing a Base Class

• 2.12.2 Construction and Initialization

• 2.12.3 The Example

• 2.12.4 Using iword/pword for RTTI in Derived Streams

• 2.13 Defining A Code Conversion Facet

• 2.13.1 Categories of Code Conversions

• 2.13.2 Example 1 -- Defining a Tiny Character Code Conversion (ASCII and EBCDIC)

• 2.13.3 Error Indication in Code Conversion Facets

• 2.13.4 Example 2 -- Defining a Multibyte Character Code Conversion (JIS and Unicode)

• 2.14 Differences between Standard and Traditional Iostreams

• 2.14.1 The Character Type

• 2.14.2 Internationalization

• 2.14.3 File Streams

• 2.14.4 String Streams

• 2.14.5 Streams with Assign

• 2.15 Differences between Standard and Rogue Wave IOStreams

• 2.15.1 Extensions

• 2.15.2 Restrictions

• 2.15.3 Deprecated Features

Appendix A: Implementation Dependencies and Open Issues in the Standard