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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Character set support
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> 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