Re: FYI: character set handling rewrite

Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-21T08:34:30Z

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:02:59 -0600
>
> I'm checking this in.

Thanks.

> doc/ChangeLog:
> 2009-03-20 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
>
> * gdb.texinfo (Character Sets): Remove obsolete text. Document
> set target-wide-charset.
> (Requirements): Mention iconv.

I fixed this by the patch below (which also corrects a few glitches
that were there long before Tom touched this node):

2009-03-21 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

* gdb.texinfo (Character Sets): Fix last change.

Index: gdb.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.569
diff -u -r1.569 gdb.texinfo
--- gdb.texinfo 21 Mar 2009 03:13:02 -0000 1.569
+++ gdb.texinfo 21 Mar 2009 08:29:24 -0000
@@ -7973,16 +7973,9 @@
@table @code
@item set target-charset @var{charset}
@kindex set target-charset
-Set the current target character set to @var{charset}. If you type
-@code{set target-charset} followed by @key{TAB}@key{TAB}, @value{GDBN}
-will list the target character sets it supports.
-
-@item set target-wide-charset @var{charset}
-@kindex set target-wide-charset
-Set the current target wide character set to @var{charset}. The
-target wide character set is the character set used by @code{wchar_t}.
-If you type @code{set target-charset} followed by @key{TAB}@key{TAB},
-@value{GDBN} will list the target character sets it supports.
+Set the current target character set to @var{charset}. To display the
+list of supported target character sets, type
+@kbd{@w{set target-charset @key{TAB}@key{TAB}}}.

@item set host-charset @var{charset}
@kindex set host-charset
@@ -7993,30 +7986,38 @@
@code{set host-charset} command.

@value{GDBN} can only use certain character sets as its host character
-set. If you type @code{set target-charset} followed by
-@key{TAB}@key{TAB}, @value{GDBN} will list the host character sets it
-supports.
+set. If you type @kbd{@w{set target-charset @key{TAB}@key{TAB}}},
+@value{GDBN} will list the host character sets it supports.

@item set charset @var{charset}
@kindex set charset
Set the current host and target character sets to @var{charset}. As
-above, if you type @code{set charset} followed by @key{TAB}@key{TAB},
-@value{GDBN} will list the name of the character sets that can be used
+above, if you type @kbd{@w{set charset @key{TAB}@key{TAB}}},
+@value{GDBN} will list the names of the character sets that can be used
for both host and target.

-
@item show charset
@kindex show charset
-Show the names of the current host and target charsets.
+Show the names of the current host and target character sets.

-@itemx show host-charset
+@item show host-charset
@kindex show host-charset
-Show the name of the current host charset.
+Show the name of the current host character set.

-@itemx show target-charset
+@item show target-charset
@kindex show target-charset
-Show the name of the current target charset.
+Show the name of the current target character set.

+@item set target-wide-charset @var{charset}
+@kindex set target-wide-charset
+Set the current target's wide character set to @var{charset}. This is
+the character set used by the target's @code{wchar_t} type. To
+display the list of supported wide character sets, type
+@kbd{@w{set target-wide-charset @key{TAB}@key{TAB}}}.
+
+@item show target-wide-charset
+@kindex show target-wide-charset
+Show the name of the current target's wide character set.
@end table

Here is an example of @value{GDBN}'s character set support in action.