"C" character set (again)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 10 15:27, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2010/1/10 Corinna Vinschen:
> >> Was that the only change you applied? Â Are you aware that this also
> >> requires to revert the changes to libc/stdlib/mbtowc_r.c and
> >> libc/stdlib/wctomb_r.c which set the function pointers __mbtowc to
> >> __utf8_mbtowc and __wctomb to __utf8_wctomb on Cygwin?
> 
> D'oh. I was (in the past), but didn't remember it this time round ...
> 
> 
> > Boy, that's tricky. Â If this change gets reverted, the initial
> > environment is converted to ASCII, rather than UTF-8. Â This very change
> > was what allowed to remove the special code to fetch the LC_xxx vars
> > from the Windows environment before converting the environment.
> 
> ... which is why the environment is being correctly converted to UTF-8 here.
> 
> So how about leaving the initial __mbtowc and __wctomb pointers as
> they are?

It feels so unclean...


Corinna

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