From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>,
Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>,
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Character set support
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vt2r8fxvnmh.fsf@zenia.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D815F66.4030605@ges.redhat.com>
Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com> writes:
> > At the moment, GDB only supports single-byte, stateless character
> > sets. This includes the ISO-8859 family (ASCII extended with
> > accented characters, and (I think) Cyrillic, for European
> > languages), and the EBCDIC family (used on IBM's mainframes).
> > Unfortunately, it excludes many Asian scripts, the fixed- and
> > variable-width Unicode encodings, and other desireable things.
> > Patches are welcome! (For example, it would be nice if the Java
> > string support could simply get absorbed into some more general
> > multi-byte encoding support.)
>
> I think this should be mentioned in the documentation.
The user documentation explicitly lists all the character sets that
are supported. There's nothing in the user interface that reveals the
implementation's restrictions. Whether GDB is prepared internally to
handle others doesn't belong in the user docs, it seems to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-13 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 17:31 Kevin Buettner
2002-09-12 17:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-12 20:24 ` Jim Blandy
2002-09-12 20:45 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-13 10:05 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2002-09-13 11:39 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-13 19:06 ` Jim Blandy
2002-09-16 22:25 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-19 12:52 ` Jim Blandy
2002-09-19 13:27 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-20 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-13 7:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-13 10:16 ` Jim Blandy
2002-09-13 10:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-13 11:42 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-13 12:11 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-13 12:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-12 17:53 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-12 18:08 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-19 17:36 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-19 17:46 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-19 18:12 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-20 0:12 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-20 9:08 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-20 14:58 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-20 16:33 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-21 1:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 16:55 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-20 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 17:34 ` Kevin Buettner
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