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Re: [RFA] defs.h: Define GDB_DEFAULT_TARGET_[WIDE_]CHARSET for Cygwin and MingW builds
> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:05:23 +0100
> From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
>
> > > +#define GDB_DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET "CP1252"
> > > +#endif
> >
> > Why cp1252? why not detect the ANSI codepage at run time, and make
> > more non-Latin users happy?
>
> How? Is there somewhere a function which converts a Windows codepage
> number into a iconv compatible codeset string?
Sorry, I'm not following: last time I looked, iconv supported cpNNNN
codepages out of the box. This is from an Ubuntu GNU/Linux system:
$ iconv --version
iconv (GNU libiconv 1.11)
$ iconv --list | egrep "^CP"
CP819 IBM819 ISO-8859-1 ISO-IR-100 ISO8859-1 ISO_8859-1 ISO_8859-1:1987 L1 LATIN1 CSISOLATIN1
CP1250 MS-EE WINDOWS-1250
CP1251 MS-CYRL WINDOWS-1251
CP1252 MS-ANSI WINDOWS-1252
CP1253 MS-GREEK WINDOWS-1253
CP1254 MS-TURK WINDOWS-1254
CP1255 MS-HEBR WINDOWS-1255
CP1256 MS-ARAB WINDOWS-1256
CP1257 WINBALTRIM WINDOWS-1257
CP1258 WINDOWS-1258
CP154 CYRILLIC-ASIAN PT154 PTCP154 CSPTCP154
CP1133 IBM-CP1133
CP874 WINDOWS-874
CP932
CP936 MS936 WINDOWS-936
CP950
CP949 UHC
CP1361 JOHAB
What am I missing?