Hey hey, When I use the boost::locale::generator to initialise an std::locale the std::locale.name() always yields "*". Examples: ... boost::locale::generator gen; std::locale loc = gen("en_US"); std::cout << loc.name(); ... output: * Whereas using the std::locale constructor with const char * yields the proper name: ... std::locale loc("en_US"); std::cout << loc.name(); ... Output: en_US I am running on Arch Linux, with Boost version 1.69.0-2 (the latest version in the official Arch package repositoy). Is there a caveat I overlooked or is there another way around this behaviour? One word of praise: the Boost locale library gave me the first pleasant experience of using localisation. I love the interface and think it very understandable even for a programmer of only mediocre level like myself. So: thank you! Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s I thought love was just a tingling of the skin <3 (Britney Spears)