Using UTF-8 as host charset

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Mon Mar 5 18:09:00 GMT 2012


>>>>> "Paul" ==   <Paul_Koning@Dell.com> writes:

Paul> While it doesn't use phony iconv, there are some other questions that
Paul> have come up on this in the past.  NetBSD (and possibly others) have
Paul> an iconv implementation that doesn't provide the "wchar_t" encoding
Paul> GDB assumes every iconv will have.  I remember trying to do something
Paul> about this and running into concerns that wchar_t, formally speaking,
Paul> is not the same as UCS-2 even though for practical purposes the two
Paul> are interchangeable.

I guess NetBSD should use libiconv.

We could in theory write a portable "phony libiconv" that uses the
standard C wide/multi-byte conversion functions.  But... libiconv
already did this, so it seemed simpler to just reuse it rather than try
to write our own.

Tom



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