std::locale::facet

 

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Locales and facets   Locales has_facet use_facet locale Facet category base classes ctype_base codecvt_base messages_base time_base money_base ctype facets ctype ctype<char> ctype_byname codecvt codecvt_byname numeric facets num_get num_put numpunct numpunct_byname collate facets collate collate_byname time facets time_get time_put time_get_byname time_put_byname

monetary facets money_get money_put moneypunct moneypunct_byname messages facets messages messages_byname Character classification and conversion Character classification isspace    iscntrl isupper islower    isalpha ispunct isdigit    isxdigit isalnum isblank (C++11) isprint isgraph Character conversions toupper    tolower String and stream conversions wstring_convert (C++11/17/26*) wbuffer_convert (C++11/17/26*) Unicode conversion facets codecvt_utf8 (C++11/17/26*) codecvt_utf16 (C++11/17/26*) codecvt_utf8_utf16 (C++11/17/26*) codecvt_mode (C++11/17/26*) C library locales LC_ALLLC_COLLATELC_CTYPELC_MONETARYLC_NUMERICLC_TIME    setlocale localeconv lconv

 

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Defined in header <locale>
class locale::facet;

std::locale::facet is the base class for facets. It provides a common base class so that locales could store pointers to the facets they implement in a single indexed container, and it abstracts support for facet reference counting.

Whenever a facet is added to a locale, the locale increments the reference count in the facet (through an implementation-specific mechanism). Whenever a locale is destructed or modified, it decrements the reference count in each facet it no longer implements. Whenever a facet's reference count becomes zero, the locale performs delete static_cast<std::locale::facet*>(f); where f is the pointer to the facet.

Facet class

A class is a facet if

• it is publicly derived from another facet, or
• it is a class derived from std::locale::facet and contains a publicly accessible declaration as follows:

static ::std::locale::id id;

Member functions

(constructor)	constructs a new facet with specified reference count (protected member function)
operator=	the copy assignment operator is deleted (protected member function)
(destructor) [virtual]	the destructor is protected virtual (virtual protected member function)

Defect reports

The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.

DR	Applied to	Behavior as published	Correct behavior
LWG 2694	C++98	the definition of 'facet' was removed by the resolution of LWG issue 436	added the definition back

See also

id	the facet index type: each facet class must declare or inherit a public static member of this type (class)