RE: UTF-8 not working for MI?

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>]

Sorry for the poorly formatted reply: I'm on a dumb web client.

> Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> I can't readily find where the escaping is done, but the MI docs say:
> `C-STRING ==>'
>     `""" SEVEN-BIT-ISO-C-STRING-CONTENT """'
> which I presume means that readers must do this decoding.

I guess that will have to be my solution, but it still seems suspicious
since running this MI command from CLI works (notice the value field):

(gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-var-create - * a"
^done,name="var1",numchild="0",value="228 L'ä'",type="wchar_t",has_more="0"

Or maybe using "interpreter-exec mi" does not quite give the true MI interpreter?

Marc
 
________________________________________
From: Tom Tromey [tromey@redhat.com]
Sent: August 19, 2010 2:20 PM
To: Marc Khouzam
Cc: 'gdb@sourceware.org'
Subject: Re: UTF-8 not working for MI?

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> writes:

Marc> I've noticed that in MI mode, gdb does not show UTF-8 characters
Marc> properly.

Marc> The host character set is "auto; currently UTF-8".

Marc> ~"$1 = 228 L'\303\244'"

\303\244 is the UTF-8 representation of U+00E4

I can't readily find where the escaping is done, but the MI docs say:

`C-STRING ==>'
     `""" SEVEN-BIT-ISO-C-STRING-CONTENT """'

which I presume means that readers must do this decoding.

Tom