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Re: Using UTF-8 as host charset
>>>>> "Mathias" == Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter@gmail.com> writes:
Mathias> As long as GDB doesn't crash and still prints ASCII strings correctly,
Mathias> it won't concern us.
I think the failure mode would be something more like gdb making the
wrong decision about whether a character is "printable". That is, I
think you could conceivably see weird output in some scenario.
I don't have an example at hand. Maybe the concern is even just
theoretical.
Mathias> If GDB is generally stable with using UTF-8 as host charset,
Mathias> we'd do so.
I have run it that way every day for multiple years.
One problem is that if you have a gdb version that uses the phony iconv,
then it cannot handle UTF-8. You can detect this at startup, though.
Tom