Re: [PATCH RFC] Character set support

Andrew Cagney
2002-09-13T18:39:48Z

> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com> writes:
>
>> > At the moment, GDB only supports single-byte, stateless character
>> > sets. This includes the ISO-8859 family (ASCII extended with
>> > accented characters, and (I think) Cyrillic, for European
>> > languages), and the EBCDIC family (used on IBM's mainframes).
>> > Unfortunately, it excludes many Asian scripts, the fixed- and
>> > variable-width Unicode encodings, and other desireable things.
>> > Patches are welcome! (For example, it would be nice if the Java
>> > string support could simply get absorbed into some more general
>> > multi-byte encoding support.)
>
>>
>> I think this should be mentioned in the documentation.
>
>
> The user documentation explicitly lists all the character sets that
> are supported. There's nothing in the user interface that reveals the
> implementation's restrictions. Whether GDB is prepared internally to
> handle others doesn't belong in the user docs, it seems to me.

I think it is also important to set the users expectations. If
expressed right it may even encourage a reader to try to remove the
restriction.

enjoy,
Andrew