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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Configuring gdb_wchar.h
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> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:52:50 -0600
> 
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> Tom> If there is a way to detect the current DOS codepage, and if that is
> Tom> equivalent to the notion of the host charset (I don't know), then we
> Tom> could put the needed code into _initialize_charset.
> 
> Eli> There's a system call to do that, yes.  Perhaps I should just write a
> Eli> limited emulation of nl_langinfo which will do the job.  That would
> Eli> avoid ugly system-dependent code in charset.c.  WDYT?
> 
> Either way is fine by me.
> 
> libiconv also includes "libcharset", which includes a locale_charset
> function to do this.  So, we could use that if it is available.  I
> couldn't immediately tell when that was added to the libiconv package.

OK, I will look into both possibilities and see what I come up with.

Thanks.