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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: alexeyf@opera.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Default target wide character set
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Reply-To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:46:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <83y6oewrmm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 	2009 23:40:01 +0300")
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> What I would propose doing is adding a new charset named "UCS".  If this
>> is selected as the target wide charset, then we would automatically pick
>> UCS-2 or UCS-4 depending on sizeof(target wchar_t).

Eli> AFAIK, Windows (whose wchar_t is 16-bit) uses UTF-16, not UCS-2.

Ok.

We could name it "auto" then.

Eli> What other platforms have a 16-bit wchar_t, and are you sure any
Eli> significant portion of them use UCS-2 (which is an obsolete encoding,
Eli> AFAIK)?

I don't know.

Tom