From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: FYI: fix Solaris problem with auto host charset
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bpqt7uo0.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y6tyihzh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat\, 18 Apr 2009 09\:38\:42 +0300")
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Eli> Btw, why is the code assuming that nl_langinfo always returns a
Eli> meaningful result?
Oversight.
Eli> Also, I don't quite get the reason why nl_langinfo is not called in
Eli> the PHONY_ICONV case. It seems we blindly assume the native charset
Eli> is Latin-1 in that case, but perhaps nl_langinfo, if it exists, will
Eli> give a better guess?
In the PHONY_ICONV case we have no way to convert between character
sets. I think this only affects u'' and U''; so it really a matter of
which failure you want in this situation.
If you want to change this, it is fine by me.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-18 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-17 23:50 Tom Tromey
2009-04-18 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-18 17:12 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-04-21 18:53 ` Tom Tromey
2009-04-21 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-21 19:13 ` Tom Tromey
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