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Re: Using UTF-8 as host charset

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter at gmail dot com>
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:41:29 -0700
Subject: Re: Using UTF-8 as host charset
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>>>>> "Mathias" == Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter@gmail.com> writes:

>> One problem is that if you have a gdb version that uses the phony iconv,
>> then it cannot handle UTF-8.

Mathias> Okay, but even then the worst thing that should happen is that GDB
Mathias> might scramble Unicode characters when printing, right?

I think so; but you can make a test case easily enough by setting gdb's
host-charset to ISO-8859-1 but Eclipse's notion to UTF-8, and then
trying things.

Tom

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