Jesse Towner

I think once Carbon gets [metaprogramming](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/docs/design/metaprogramming.md) and static reflection defined and implemented, we'll have a lot more power over how memory order can be transformed from the default order. Same...

> It always feels odd needing to teach junior C++ programmers about memory layouts before any of their classes can be used when 99% of the time it shouldn't matter....

Linking these related issues and discussion. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/issues/520 https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/issues/523 https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/issues/1454 https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/issues/1583 https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/1545

I've run into the same problem. I'm running on Linux Mint 17, probably a configuration header issue.

Thanks for looking at this. I'll try and take a look at them closer sometime later this week.

On second thought, a different format specifier to indicate preference of `std::num_put` instead of `std::numpunct` is probably a bad idea. It still would nice if there was a standard, out-of-band...

> Just using wchar_t for the notion of thousands separator is still wrong. The type to represent a UTF character is string, as it can span arbitrary many code points....

@DanielaE > either do string conversions between `char`-based and `wchar_t`-based strings wherever possibly needed (leaving litter all around) or simply stick with `wchar_t`-based strings and live with the size and...