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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] python: save/restore/fix error state
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:37:57 +0200, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
> Jan> I have to note this problem occurs for 882 (75.51%) out of the 1168
> Jan> charsets supported by glibc.
> 
> Ugh.  How many of those charsets are used by some locale?

After same offhand filtering at least for these:
	hy_AM.armscii8
	ka_GE.georgianps
	tg_TJ.koi8t
	vi_VN.tcvn
	zh_TW.euctw


> If it is too many then we should probably look at some other approach.
> We could do the conversion in gdb.  Or we could provide an iconv-based
> python codec.

Cannot it be reassigned to Python as a bug of its own?
BTW tested python-2.7-8.fc14.1.x86_64; there exists also python-3.x.


Thanks,
Jan