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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@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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>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Tom> This IBM1047 scenario is far-fetched.

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?
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.

Tom