std::messages<CharT>::open, std::messages<CharT>::do_open

public:
catalog open( const std::basic_string<char>& name, const std::locale& loc ) const;

protected:
virtual catalog do_open( const std::basic_string<char>& name, const std::locale& loc ) const;

1) Public member function, calls the protected virtual member function do_open of the most derived class.

2) Obtains a value of type catalog (inherited from std::messages_base), which can be passed to get() to retrieve messages from the message catalog named by name. This value is usable until passed to close().

Parameters

Return value

The non-negative value of type catalog that can be used with get() and close(). Returns a negative value if the catalog could not be opened.

Notes

On POSIX systems, this function call usually translates to a call to catopen(). In GNU libstdc++, it calls textdomain.

The actual catalog location is implementation-defined: for the catalog "sed" (message catalogs installed with the Unix utility 'sed') in German locale, for example, the file opened by this function call may be /usr/lib/nls/msg/de_DE/sed.cat, /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/sed.cat, or /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo.

Example

#include <iostream>
#include <locale>
 
int main()
{
    std::locale loc("de_DE.utf8");
    std::cout.imbue(loc);
    auto& facet = std::use_facet<std::messages<char>>(loc);
    auto cat = facet.open("sed", loc);
    if(cat < 0 )
        std::cout << "Could not open german \"sed\" message catalog\n";
    else
        std::cout << "\"No match\" in German: "
                  << facet.get(cat, 0, 0, "No match") << '\n'
                  << "\"Memory exhausted\" in German: "
                  << facet.get(cat, 0, 0, "Memory exhausted") << '\n';
    facet.close(cat);
}

"No match" in German: Keine Übereinstimmung
"Memory exhausted" in German: Speicher erschöpft

See also