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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Cc: "'gdb\@sourceware.org'" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: UTF-8 not working for MI?
References: <F7CE05678329534C957159168FA70DEC5716E94E4D@EUSAACMS0703.eamcs.ericsson.se>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:20:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <F7CE05678329534C957159168FA70DEC5716E94E4D@EUSAACMS0703.eamcs.ericsson.se>	(Marc Khouzam's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:25:25 -0400")
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>>>>> "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