From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 418 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2010 11:57:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 407 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Mar 2010 11:57:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wp151.webpack.hosteurope.de (HELO wp151.webpack.hosteurope.de) (80.237.132.158) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:57:47 +0000 Received: from 188-192-228-236-dynip.superkabel.de ([188.192.228.236] helo=[192.168.1.130]); authenticated by wp151.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpa id 1Nn9gX-0007O0-Rw; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:57:45 +0100 Message-ID: <4B8F9FE9.2040401@technosis.de> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:57:00 -0000 From: Anton Kunze User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081112) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Printing of strings with special characters Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 Hello, i'am using gdb 7.0.1 with python and pretty printing on suse linux. If I try to print string with german special characters I get only strings as '\nnn'. My gdbinit file contains following: set charset ISO-8859-1 set target-wide-charset ISO-8859-1 set print pretty off set print sevenbit-strings off set print object on python import sys sys.path.insert(0, '/home/anton/projects/debug/printers') from qt4 import register_qt4_printers register_qt4_printers (None) from kde4 import register_kde4_printers register_kde4_printers (None) from libstdcxx import register_libstdcxx_printers register_libstdcxx_printers (None) end Within my debug session I use the following commonds on gdb console: set print sevenbit-strings off print qsHtml $4 = "h\366h\366h\366" show print sevenbit-strings Printing of 8-bit characters in strings as \nnn is off. But the content of "qsHtml" variable is not as I expected. What can I do? best regards