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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Using UTF-8 as host charset
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In-Reply-To: <4F55314A.6030003@gmail.com> (Mathias Kunter's message of "Mon,	05 Mar 2012 22:34:02 +0100")
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>>>>> "Mathias" == Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter@gmail.com> writes:

>> One problem is that if you have a gdb version that uses the phony iconv,
>> then it cannot handle UTF-8.

Mathias> Okay, but even then the worst thing that should happen is that GDB
Mathias> might scramble Unicode characters when printing, right?

I think so; but you can make a test case easily enough by setting gdb's
host-charset to ISO-8859-1 but Eclipse's notion to UTF-8, and then
trying things.

Tom