From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: <Paul_Koning@Dell.com>
Cc: <mathiaskunter@gmail.com>, <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Using UTF-8 as host charset
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mx7ux6mf.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09787EF419216C41A903FD14EE5506DD03138CBD68@AUSX7MCPC103.AMER.DELL.COM> (Paul Koning's message of "Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:12:51 -0600")
>>>>> "Paul" == <Paul_Koning@Dell.com> writes:
Paul> While it doesn't use phony iconv, there are some other questions that
Paul> have come up on this in the past. NetBSD (and possibly others) have
Paul> an iconv implementation that doesn't provide the "wchar_t" encoding
Paul> GDB assumes every iconv will have. I remember trying to do something
Paul> about this and running into concerns that wchar_t, formally speaking,
Paul> is not the same as UCS-2 even though for practical purposes the two
Paul> are interchangeable.
I guess NetBSD should use libiconv.
We could in theory write a portable "phony libiconv" that uses the
standard C wide/multi-byte conversion functions. But... libiconv
already did this, so it seemed simpler to just reuse it rather than try
to write our own.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-03 16:34 Mathias Kunter
2012-03-05 16:13 ` Paul_Koning
2012-03-05 18:09 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-03-05 18:11 ` Paul_Koning
2012-03-05 21:04 ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-05 16:41 ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-05 16:44 ` Pedro Alves
2012-03-05 20:51 ` Mathias Kunter
2012-03-05 21:13 ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-05 21:34 ` Mathias Kunter
2012-03-05 21:41 ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-05 22:23 ` Mathias Kunter
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