Re: [RFA] defs.h: Define GDB_DEFAULT_TARGET_[WIDE_]CHARSET for Cygwin and MingW builds

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

On Feb 28 19:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:05:23 +0100
> > From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
> > 
> > > > +#define GDB_DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET "CP1252"
> > > > +#endif
> > > 
> > > Why cp1252? why not detect the ANSI codepage at run time, and make
> > > more non-Latin users happy?
> > 
> > How?  Is there somewhere a function which converts a Windows codepage 
> > number into a iconv compatible codeset string?
> 
> Sorry, I'm not following: last time I looked, iconv supported cpNNNN
> codepages out of the box.  This is from an Ubuntu GNU/Linux system:
> 
>   $ iconv --version
>   iconv (GNU libiconv 1.11)
>   $ iconv --list | egrep "^CP"
>   CP819 IBM819 ISO-8859-1 ISO-IR-100 ISO8859-1 ISO_8859-1 ISO_8859-1:1987 L1 LATIN1 CSISOLATIN1
>   CP1250 MS-EE WINDOWS-1250
>   CP1251 MS-CYRL WINDOWS-1251
>   CP1252 MS-ANSI WINDOWS-1252
>   CP1253 MS-GREEK WINDOWS-1253
>   CP1254 MS-TURK WINDOWS-1254
>   CP1255 MS-HEBR WINDOWS-1255
>   CP1256 MS-ARAB WINDOWS-1256
>   CP1257 WINBALTRIM WINDOWS-1257
>   CP1258 WINDOWS-1258
>   CP154 CYRILLIC-ASIAN PT154 PTCP154 CSPTCP154
>   CP1133 IBM-CP1133
>   CP874 WINDOWS-874
>   CP932
>   CP936 MS936 WINDOWS-936
>   CP950
>   CP949 UHC
>   CP1361 JOHAB
> 
> What am I missing?

Windows has a function GetACP() which returns the current ANSI
codepage.  iconv wants a string which determines the source and
target codesets.  I don't know any function in Windows which 
converts a codepage number into an iconv-compatible codeset name.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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