RFC: Displaying multibyte symbol names in readelf

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Fri, 25 May 2012, Tom Tromey wrote:

> If we're already there, maybe at least for GNU systems we can switch out
> of it and make it all use UTF-8... ?

Multibyte symbol names generated by GCC (with -fextended-identifiers and 
\u or \U UCNs in identifiers) do always use UTF-8 in the .s file.  GCC 
translates to the locale encoding as needed for diagnostics.

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Joseph S. Myers
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