From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26888 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2014 13:58:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 26877 invoked by uid 89); 16 Jun 2014 13:58:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:58:11 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s5GDw3K7029498 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:58:04 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s5GDvxCv000582; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:58:00 -0400 Message-ID: <539EF7E7.7020204@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:58:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: yao@codesourcery.com, tromey@redhat.com, brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ping] [PATCH] Different outputs affected by locale References: <1401192650-29688-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <538EAEE5.2080708@codesourcery.com> <20140604124708.GR4289@adacore.com> <538F1CC3.9090605@codesourcery.com> <87oay8a0t6.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <538F803A.9020007@redhat.com> <538FE412.1050806@codesourcery.com> <53903119.6000204@redhat.com> <53903EE5.8090107@codesourcery.com> <539042A2.4050409@redhat.com> <539571C6.40605@codesourcery.com> <53958862.5020106@redhat.com> <5397BCEC.8080300@codesourcery.com> <539990BD.9020504@redhat.com> <83tx7qxdg6.fsf@gnu.org> <5399E2D7.3060705@redhat.com> <83ioo6xbk2.fsf@gnu.org> <5399EC00.4000601@redhat.com> <83egyux9h2.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83egyux9h2.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00552.txt.bz2 On 06/12/2014 07:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > With you so far. But note that on Windows, even the above does not > guarantee "stable output", because the console codepage is not changed > by 'setlocale', I guess the harmness could run gdb under chcp 65001 or some such. > You cannot ask the Windows 'setlocale' to use UTF-8 as the codeset > (although there is a UTF-8 codepage, and Windows does support it in > general). More importantly, since 'setlocale' on Windows disregards > the environment variables, you cannot change the host charset by > setting environment variables. You must do that by a GDB command that > sets host-charset. See https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-06/msg00364.html . -- Pedro Alves